November 2005 - Award winning actress, Anna Deveare Smith, presented a stunning performance entitled, “ A Pot with Holes” to the TIME Global Health Summit’s audience of leaders from government, business, public policy, health and the arts. She visited PROMETRA Uganda and spent time in its teaching forest talking with and listening to traditional healers. She developed a one woman show that portrays the role traditional medicine plays in the HIV/AIDS epidemic based on the logo of PROMETRA International – a pot with holes – and how all sectors of society must lend “one finger” to help close the holes in the pot.
Hundreds of participants from medicine, government, business and civil society discussed the perils and the possibilities of world health at this three-day Global Health Summit in New York City. Final speakers included CNN founder Ted Turner; Patty Stonesifer, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Summit's lead sponsor; Dr. Helene Gayle, who heads HIV and related programs for the Gates Foundation; rock star Bono, by video from California, and World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz. Bill Clinton and Bill Gates appeared together to discuss solutions. Officials at Time magazine, the conference organizer, asked departing participants for ideas on how to win financial and policy support for global health.
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