The U.S. has given hundreds of millions of dollars to Tanzania to fight HIV/AIDS and malaria, but there are also many churches and faith-based groups that come to Africa to help people infected with these diseases.

President Bush and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete talked about the U.S. programs at a press conference here in Dar es Salaam today, but when we got back to our press hotel, I ran into a few Americans here to help out themselves.

Lamar Green, from Woodstock, Ga., was with four or five other members of a group called Never Alone Ministries. They were setting out from the hotel, in a van packed with luggage, for a city about three hours west of Dar es Salaam called Morogoro.

In Morogoro, Mr. Green said, 80 percent of the people have malaria, and 60 percent have AIDS.

Never Alone was delivering medicines to the village that were donated by drug companies.

— Jon Ward, White House correspondent, The Washington Times