Ed. note: Many of you asked Lesley Wroughton, the Reuters correspondent on the six-nation African tour with Bono, when the charity-dedicated Red products will be more widely available. Lesley spoke with Bobby Shriver, chief executive of Product Red. He’s also chairman of DATA, the lobby group formed by Bono and is travelling with Bono. Here’s what he said:

“If we can get the iconic branding companies to us, sure wed expand. Right now, however, with the five Red companies weve got, three of them havent fully launched their products yet. The only fully featured product out there is the American Express card and as of Monday, the Motorola phone. Gap has only had a T-shirt. In the fall, they will have a full line including leather jackets, jeans, bags, belts and accessories. Whole sections of Gap stores will be Red. Similarly, Armani right now has sunglasses but in the fall theyll have a whole series of things that Mr. Armani (created in collaboration) with a Ghanaian artist.

Getting those things to actually work and work together is the near-term focus for this year, but next year we would love to have more. (Picture: Bono holds a child at a clinic in Butha Buthe near Lesotho’s capital Maseru May 17, 2006. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings)