Today is World AIDS Day and to mark this, we're inviting mumsnetters to send in questions to development experts Melinda Gates and Dr Sipho Moyo, from the Gates Foundation and campaigning organisation ONE.
Melinda Gates is the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a not for profit organisation she and husband Bill founded in 1994. Its aims include combating extreme poverty and poor health in developing countries. Together they are the biggest philanthropists in the world today, having given $28 billion of their personal fortune for their foundation?s work. Melinda was in London recently to help ONE launch Living Proof - a campaign dedicated to sharing the stories of progress and success in global health and development. She lives with Bill and their three children in Seattle, Washington
Dr Sipho Moyo is the Africa Director for ONE - a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organisation that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring governments, and has over 2 million members worldwide. One of their current campaigns highlights that shocking statistic that over 1,000 children are born with HIV every day, despite the fact that mother to child transmission is preventable, and calls for No Child to be born with HIV by 2015 - see their powerful video featuring pregnant women. Dr Moyo has spent a long career in international development, including posts at the World Bank, the UN and most recently the African Development Bank as Tanzania Country Director. She has lived in nine different countries - seven in her home continent of Africa plus the US and Italy. She now lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and has a daughter studying in the US.
Send your questions in to Melinda and Dr Moyo by midday on Monday 6th December and we'll link to the answers from this thread on Friday 10th December.