Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/conference-stresses-testing-role-of-women-in-aids-prevention Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript World health experts and community leaders gathered in Toronto for the 16th International AIDS Conference. Former NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who attended the conference, discusses the ideas put forth. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. GWEN IFILL: Participants in this week's International AIDS Conference in Toronto have tackled the history of a disease which still records four million new infections every year. The race for a solution to stem the tide has returned again and again to a running theme: the increased risk to women in Africa, in the United States, and around the world.Our friend, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, has been covering these and other issues on the continent of Africa for nearly 10 years. At the AIDS meeting yesterday, she talked about the past, present and future with two leading thinkers on the subject: former President Bill Clinton and Gates Foundation Chairman Bill Gates. She joins us now.Charlayne, welcome back to the NewsHour. CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT, Former NewsHour Correspondent: Thank you, Gwen. GWEN IFILL: Let's talk about that running theme. The face of AIDS increasingly seems to be the face of a woman. CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT: Absolutely. I mean, the biggest problem on the African continent is poverty, and now AIDS, in the place of war, is actually its new grim companion. And the two things together are really decimating the continent.And I think that there's been so much attention to women now, it's getting new play, especially at the AIDS conference, because people are beginning to realize that, if you're going to save nations, you've got to save the women.