Desmond Tutu's Daughter Urges More Action on AIDS

On Friday at the Louisville Free Public Library, the Rev. Mpho Tutu called on the United States to make a larger contribution to the global fight against AIDS. "Whole generations are being killed by this disease," said Mpho, the daughter of South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu. She said the United States should increase its contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and urged local constituents to advocate for the same in letters to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), chairperson of the Senate foreign operations appropriations subcommittee. "You never know which voice it is that will finally get through to him that this is a critical issue," she said. Discussions about monogamy and how HIV is transmitted, together with ensuring that African girls are educated as well as boys, are crucial in the global AIDS fight, she said.

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