The U.S.Global AIDS coordinator, Ambassador Eric Goosby attended the Addis Ababa meeting.

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Goosby said infection rates in South Africa and Botswana remain significantly higher.

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Ambassador Goosby also administers the U.S.President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which provided Ethiopia an additional $350 million in AIDS prevention and treatment funding during the last fiscal year.

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Stanley Goosby, a chief scientist with the Pacific Disaster Center in Hawaii, said Indian Ocean countries have made significant progress in tsunami preparedness.

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"You have to have an end-to-end system, " Goosby said.

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In addition, many senior-level administration officials spoke at the conference, including Secretaries Clinton and Sebelius, Ambassador Eric Goosby, Dr. Grant Colfax of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, and Dr. Tony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health.

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