Hollywood movie star Brad Pitt visits

with two AIDS orphans, no names given, in Addis

Ababa, Ethiopia, Friday, April 15, 2005, with their community caregiver

who are being helped by President Bush's AIDS

plan.(AP photo) BEIJING, April 27-- Actor Brad Pitt spent three days in Ethiopia meeting with orphans of the AIDS pandemic that is devastating Africa, a spokesman said Tuesday.

The star of"Troy" and"Fight Club" also visited projects offering AIDS treatment as part of a campaign to get more lifesaving drugs for victims of the HIV virus that causes AIDS.

Pitt's trip was organized by DATA, a Washington-based lobby group co-founded by rock star Bono, which campaigns to improve trade and debt terms for poor countries and raising awareness about AIDS in poor countries.

Pitt was in Ethiopia from Saturday to late Monday.

"We have met some incredible people, incredibly poor people who are fighting back against AIDS and extreme poverty with help from Americans," said DATA Executive Director Jamie Drummond. It is 41-year-old Pitt's second visit to Ethiopia, where 1.5 million people are infected, making it the fifth highest population in the world living with the HIV virus.

(Source: CRIENGLISH.com/Agencies)