Watch for Bono’s interview with Ed Bradley on CBS’ 60 Minutes this Sunday night at 7pm.

This was one mission that Bono decided wasn’t going to get done by “taking the usual bleeding heart liberal line,” he tells Bradley. So the guy on the left approached the right, “particularly conservative Christians,” he says.

“I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency. I was saying, ‘This is the leprosy that we read about in the New Testament…Christ hung out with the lepers,’ ” Bono recalls saying, ” ‘But you’re ignoring the AIDS emergency.’ ”

It worked. “And you know, they said, ‘Well, you’re right, actually…and we’re sorry. We’ll get involved.’ And they did,” Bono recalls. “People openly laughed in my face when I said this administration would distribute antiretroviral drugs to Africa…There’s 200,000 Africans now who owe their lives to America.”