Since 1979 in partnership with the cable industry, cspan covered complete hearings and Committee Meetings of congress. Cspan gives you a front row seat to how issues are debated and decided with no commentary and no interruptions and completely unfiltered. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Coming up, hillary and chelsea clinton, participating in the open session of the Clinton Global Initiative conference in new york city. Joining them were activists around the world including Actress Ashley Judd to discuss women and girls rights, Climate Change and access to aids and h. I. V. Treatment. [applause] when i was 6 years old, being too young to stay at home alone, i would take a bus every day after school to my aunts. I wanted to play outside but instead i had to listen to life stories of everyday people that came to my aunt daisys beauty salon, the village in little rock, arkansas. My aunt daisy was hardworking and compassionate and her salon, though small, was illuminating. My childhood was triggering and overwhelming at times. But it was also beautiful. Those days spent in her salon showed me that people can make a difference in the life of others just by a simple gesture. And a decent conversation. And it made me realize how a single moment seated in the salon or barber chair has the power to create lasting impacts or even a movement. If i ask you to close your eyes and think of africa, i bet most of you would be barefoot running in the dust. The cliche of africa is really a succession of tragedies and academics but the reality that those challenges are tremendous. As of today, 1. 3 billion africans representing 25 of our population and in 2001, 1 . Africa is the youngest continent with a median age of 20 years old, 60 below 25 and all aspiring to have a decent life. Africans are still poor mostly without access to clean water, Food Security and above all the hardest tragedy is access to education. Its not inclusion of the pyramid. To give an example, africa needs 100 times more universities to be able to really answer to the needs. And often inefficient policies that were not able to address these issues so far. Over the years, therapy and personal Development Helped me work through traumatic experiences in my childhood. I recognize the same pain needed for coping skills and so many other marginalized black men and boys which led me to create the confess project of america in 2016 to provide others with Mental Health strategies and coping skills to have them move past their own pain. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for black men between the ages of 1824, and only 4 of clinicians in the Mental Health field are people of color. Spending time with my aunt daisy is where social innovation and a journey of impact met me as it speaks to the work the confess project of america now does in over 52 cities and 30 states. Train barber and stylist to be Mental Health advocates. And in 2022, the confess project made a commitment to action to increase Mental Health access and decrease the stigma of Mental Health by meeting people where they already are in barbershops. Since then with the department of Behavior Health in georgia we trained over 500 beauty stylists. 50 of the barbers and stylists have gone through the training and are better informed about Mental Health than they were before, because of the support of c. G. I. We cemented a partnership with the Walmart Foundation addressing juvenile Justice Strategies in arkansas. Weve also formed a partnership with truist bank to help expand our curriculum across the southeast in 20 barber schools. Im proud to share with you that the confess project of america is now reaching 3. 8 Million People annually through our training of network of barbers and hairstylists. [applause] you may being theres no straightforward solution. We believe education is the one. Africa does not have the luxury to take its time and build universities the same traditional ways in the western countries so it will have to leapfrog through advanced technology and alternative education. Seeing this, we started in 2016o. S. C. , which is a not for profit supporting young entrepreneurs in africa. We started in tune hes yeah and together with Columbia University we built a program that targeted a hundred youth trained every year, mentored them, offered them International Exposure and we scaled the model slowly through the whole country targeting all universities with hundreds of faculty all trained to help us in our mission. In seven years, we supported 2,000 students, around 400 youth led startups, using technology to solve global issues. And guess what . After seven years, 98 of our entrepreneurs are unemployed, whether they have their own venture or working for other companies, which is a remarkable outcome in a country where 30 of graduates are own employees only. Today i stand before you to announce the o. S. C. s commitment to expand the model across africa. We tried it in morocco and tried it in senegal and it worked. Were trying to do that at scale and this initiative has diversified including Columbia University but also m. I. T. Said lets join and we added also many countries, the u. S. Embassy, the german government, the european union, france, digital africa, african invest and one of the first buildings built in africa by a. I. It will empower communities to change the narrative of the continent and showcase the power of talent that exists in our youth. It is no surprise any of us here is not always easy. Its hard some days to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Over the last year we faced changes in funding and organizational shifts but last year made the commitment to help 300 barbers and stylists learn Mental Health strategies to support their clients, families and community members. And with the support of this community, we will see our commitment to action to help create a culture of Mental Health for communities of color. And at times when i start to lose hope i remember the compassion i felt as a young child with my aunt daisy. We must remain compassionate and resilient. We have to keep going. [applause] so i come all the way from tune hes yeah, the little tunisia, the Little Country that uses flowers to disrupt regimes and some know us as creators of the string but we want to create the entrepreneurization built in africa. Tunisia offered its name. And as of today im humbled to use my voice to make the case of our youth. I never thought one day his holiness would open the door to me and my friend lorenzo. But i also never thought we could transform a International Competition into an african ecosystem, recognized and globally connected and changing the narrative of africa because africa is the future. We refused to believe there is no solution. There is no curse. There just needs to be a shift in the paradigm. There need to be new solutions. And we are witnessing the shift. We are all in this journey together because its our future. And we will make sure that this reality across the continent happens and well all keep going. Enjoy your day. [applause] i could not be happier ive had a chance today to see firsthand what is happening here in the foundation for recovery. I just saw a room packed with volunteers who are putting together recovery kits. I just wanted to come and see all of you and thank every one of you and tell you how meaningful this work is. Thank you very, very much. Since 2019 weve distributed and received over 20,000 lifesaving prevention kits which has been a collaborative effort with the Clinton Foundation that will revive and reverse preventible opiod overdose. 34 people who struggle with addictions do eventually recover. We cant they cant recover if we deny resources and they think prison is the answer instead of recovery is the answer. So weve got work to do. Thank you all for all the work youre doing. We admire what you do by caring and loving. The clinton coalition, i cant think of a Better Organization that reminds us we have a future. Its all about separating us from the differences that divide us and finding Common Ground because when we Work Together, guess what . We get really great things done. Please welcome president bill clinton and viv. I really like that last session and i hope you did. I think of all the challenges we face. It is likely that non requires more collective action than seriously addressing Climate Change. Every day we have new evidence of a new reality we already live in. The wildfires are more deadly and more rapidly moving. The floods are deeper and droughts longer and the hurricanes and typhoons more severe. Record air and ocean temperatures, species dieoffs, and with every new headline, the reminder that the longer we fail to act, the more severe the consequences will be. Things will get worse and they in turn will exacerbate our other challenges including poverty, hunger, malnutrition, disease, and of course armed conflict. But theres a flip side here. We know that if we Work Together and whenever we do it seriously, deliberately, and over an extended period of time, things get better. We can lift up the community and improve the human condition. And we know that theres something for everybody to do, particularly in this space. Entrepreneurs and innovators all around the world have already proven that there are significant responses to Climate Change, which will make things better, lower future risks, and improve outcomes. Today im pleased to introduce one of them. He is and is really whom i last saw in morocco. He has spent a lot of time and effort to unlock the entrepreneurial skills of people in north africa and the middle east and to reach across the divide to prove that a Common Future can be built. Now ill let him explain it, but he decided on his own, thats how we found him and how we began to Work Together. And he decided on his own that the rest of us had not done enough about Climate Change. Which was painfully self evident by a lot of people saying that and never doing anything about it. So i would like to introduce him. [applause] president clinton, distinguished guests, good morning. Thank you, mr. President , for the warm words. What an honor to stand here with you on this prominent stage. We worked very hard to reach this moment of the announcement, and im eager to see the results of our initiative. Ladies and gentlemen, the world is a global theater. Yet one voice has orchestrated a unique and significant forum focusing on acting for the better. That voice belongs to you, president clinton. Thanks to your leadership and commitment, we all stand here today ready to raise a united hand and address one of the most critical challenges of all time, Climate Change. We are crying out for help, devastating wildfires ravaging canada. Hawaii faces the deadliest blaze in a century. Destructive hurricanes and typhoons are smashing against our coastlines. Crippling droughts are consuming africa and unprecedented heat waves are striking europe and north america. These disastrous events are alarming signs of a new normal we cannot and should not accept. Throughout my career, i was privileged to build companies that held the technology to empower people. Inspired by you, president clinton, now i inspire to stand and harness technologies to help our planet. Following long and extensive preparation, we proudly announce, i joined Climate Tech Fund echo breach. [applause] thank you. Echo breach represents the opportunity to create a future in which Economic Growth and environmental prosperity are two sides of the same coin. Through ecobridge fund well invest in a wide range of cutting Edge Technologies that will shape the Sustainable Future for our children. Humanity has the resilience to conger great challenges o epidemics and devastating wars of tyranny. President clinton, we are both fully committed to do everything in our power and leave no stone unturned until we find the most innovative ideas that will hopefully rebalance our world. I call upon you, fellow business leaders, join us, join us and together we will tackle the Climate Crisis and turn it into a triumph. [applause] lets ensure a better tomorrow for us and for all future generations. After all, we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. Thank you. Please welcome dr. Chelsea clinton. C. Clinton dr. Clinton good evening, everyone. I didnt know the hue to the blue to match awkwardly and meticulously. Im incredibly grateful for our next conversation because were coming together at a moment where there is both an enormous reason for optimism about the fight for h. I. V. And aids and also deeply concerning and less than encouraging news in the ongoing effort to end aids. The good news stems from a recent report from u. N. Aids that we can in new h. I. V. Infections and the Public Health emergency that has been aids for more than three decades if we stay the course through 2030. This is only possible as a promise because of the extraordinary work of activists, of advocates, of scientists, of grassroots organizers, of doctors and nurses and midwives. Many of you here in this room of course the many decades of h. I. V. And aids. It is particularly meaningful to us here at the Clinton Foundation to be on this precipice because the origin of the foundation really began in 2002 when my father and Nelson Mandela at the barcelona aids conference that year decided to do something about the deep inequity that existed in access to hivaids treatment. People in the United States were more likely to have access, still too far did and People Living in south africa and much of the global south had no effective access to the medicines that were able to turn aids into a chronic livable illness because that cost of treating a person per year more than 20 years ago was 10,000. And so my father launched the clinton hivaids initiative, now chi which had been a high priced low volume market to a high volume low priced market and today the average cost of treating a person per year in the global south is less than 60. So im incredibly proud of this work and am proud that my father and the many thousands of Extraordinary People who have worked at chi and continue to work at chi have taken that as only a reason to keep going to do more. So chi has negotiated more than 140 different commodities arrangements enabling earlier detection, treatment, and when possible vaccinations against a number of the health scourges that still take far too many lives and far too many people around the world. And we know that while the end of aids being in sight is an incredible testament to the work of everyone over the last 30plus years to get us at this point, as we heard earlier in the conversation about protecting hivaids rights, we cannot take our foot off the pedal and we could not mistake progress for success and we cannot take for granted that everyone will recognize the importance of this fight for justice, equity, and health. Because while certainly we are very proud at chi for all the work weve been able to be a part of, to pioneer, to stand behind, to learn from, we know that much of our work, as much of the work of any of us in this room that have been engaged in this fight has been made possible by the work of the global funds to fight aids, tuberculosis, and malaria, by u. N. Aids, by the world health organization, by unicef and many of those that have been at the large global multilateral institutions, many of whom in turn have received support from pet far, the u. S. Emergency plan for aid relief president bush launched in 2003. It is one that where much of its two decade existence has received even recently strong bipartisan support here in the United States. And yet today reauthorization for petfar is not something to take for granted. Without the continued support of the United States government and effectively of citizens here in the United States, we will not be able to turn aids into part of our history and hold such a stranglehold for our presence and our future. While the u. N. Aids report suggest the data is robust and strong and we can end aids as a Public Health crisis and end new h. I. V. Infections by 2030, that is only possible if we sustain political will and funding and focus it on where the virus continues to spread most rapidly. At the moment, that is among women and children. A staggering 84,000 kids around the world still die from aids every year. And so for those of us who care about children, for those of us who care about equity, for those of us who care about justice and for those of us who care about Public Health, we have to care about the fight for petfar reauthorization and the one critical step for reaching the milestone u. N. Aids tells us is possible. After we reach that milestone we have to continue to provide support for everyone living with hivaids are able to live lives full of dignity, promise, purpose and then hopefully then die of Something Els