Moscow ? Laura Bush danced and played with HIV-infected orphans on Friday and said it is her wish to see a generation of children free of AIDS.

Bush visited the orphanage on the outskirts of the city after arriving with President Bush for the Group of Eight summit. She held the children’s hands and joined them in the “chicken dance.”

The American first lady told doctors at the Federal Pediatrics AIDS Center that she hoped to find out “what we can do to stop the transmission of AIDS to have a whole generation HIV-free as well as be able to treat children so they can live a normal life.”

“We also need to reduce the stigma associated with HIV,” she said.

Many Russian parents abandon children with HIV because of social and economic pressure. The orphanage is home to about 40 children ranging in age from 1 to 8.

Russia has one of the fastest-growing rates of HIV infection. The U.N. AIDS agency puts the number of infected people at nearly 900,000 while others say it could be above 1 million – about 1 percent of the population.