France first lady joins fight against AIDS

PARIS, Nov. 28 (Chinese media) -- France's first lady Carla

Bruni-Sarkozy will act as a goodwill ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight

AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, officials announced Thursday.

The first lady will work on the

protection of mothers and children against AIDS. She will give more details

about her new role at a news conference on Monday with the fund's Executive

Director Michel Kazatchkine, the French presidency said.

French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy

departs a luncheon for the White House Symposium on Advancing Global

Literacy outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Sept. 22,

2008. Bruni-Sarkozy will act as a goodwill ambassador for the Global Fund

to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. (Chinese media/Reuters

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Bruni-Sarkozy married French President Nicolas

Sarkozy in February less than three months after they met. She always says she

wants to use her powerful position to advance a worthy global cause.

Based in Geneva, the fund is an international

public-private financial institution, overseeing hundreds of programs in 136

countries through public-private partnerships that have raised more than 11

billion U.S. dollars.