In 2008 we began to help our students' caretakers, their elderly grandmothers. What began as a handful of guardians has blossomed into a program assisting over 6,200 grannies who are self-organized into 91 groups in three districts.

Today, more than 1,000 babies are born with HIV every day in the developing world. As a mother, this statistic really breaks my heart, especially when as many as 98% of these cases could be prevented.

Every generation is known for something. Will this be the one to deliver an AIDS Free Generation in 2015? It can be.

Are we confident that U.S. leadership on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis will acknowledge the evidence about what is possible and rise to this challenge? Will President Obama heed Archbishop Tutu's call to action and do his part to end AIDS?

I hadn't expected joy. Because in Kenya, moms and babies are dying. Way too many. The stats are alarming.

Let's build on the progress made in the past 30 years and achieve our shared end goal -- a world free of HIV/AIDS.