Former US president Bill Clinton is to make a return to MTV to discuss the global AIDS epidemic, ten years after playing the saxophone on the cable music channel in one of the defining moments of his 1992 campaign for the White House.
Bill, who is an honorary co-chairman of the International AIDS Trust Foundation, will be one of several panellists taking questions from an audience of young adults from more than 25 countries during an hour-long programme which will be taped in Barcelona, Spain, on July 11.
The special, titled Staying Alive: A Global Forum On HIV/AIDS, will be broadcast from July 12 on more than 30 MTV channels worldwide. It is part of a new youth-orientated AIDS awareness campaign MTV is launching in conjunction with the Kaiser Family Foundation and Family Health International.
Bill will be joined on the panel by Peter Piot, the head of the joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, Brazilian Health Ministry official Paulo Teixeira and Vicki Ehrich of the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline Plc.
The former president made his first appearance on MTV ten years ago when he was on his first campaign for the White House. Bill later credited his appearance, in which he played his saxophone and answered questions about, among other things, his underwear, with helping energize young people about politics.
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