Valerie Jarrett On Ending HIV/AIDS In The United States

Valerie Jarrett On Ending HIV/AIDS In The United States
Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, speaks during a news conference highlighting the efforts of the Obama Administration on HIV/AIDS issues in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. The International AIDS Society, IAS, announced that the XIX International AIDS Conference will be held in Washington in July 2012. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, speaks during a news conference highlighting the efforts of the Obama Administration on HIV/AIDS issues in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. The International AIDS Society, IAS, announced that the XIX International AIDS Conference will be held in Washington in July 2012. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Last month, fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning artist and HIV advocate Alicia Keys introduced EMPOWERED, an ongoing public information campaign to reach women in the U.S. about HIV/AIDS. At the launch event in Washington, D.C. at the Kaiser Family Foundation, Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett spoke both personally and professionally about how this disease affects us in so many ways, and detailed how the Obama Administration is tackling this crisis head-on.

Below is a select excerpt from her remarks, published in partnership with the Skoll World Forum.

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