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Monday, July 21, 2008
US Senate Triples Funding for Global AIDS Fight.
The US Senate has given a major boost to a program to combat AIDS and malaria around the world,voting to triple funding for a cause championed by President George W.Bush.
The Senate on 16 July voted 80 to 16 to authorize $48 billion over the next five years - $18 billion dollars more than Bush had requested - for the program, which also includes funds to battle tuberculosis. 'This bill will expand American leadership on global health and foster hope around the world....' said Paul Zeitz, Executive director of the Global AIDS Alliance...." [Agence France Presse/Factiva]
(Photo: Capital building where US Senate meets.)
The Associated Press (AP) reported that the statement "...said that when the program was launched in 2003, about 50,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa were receiving anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS. Today, the program supports lifesaving anti-retroviral treatment for more than 1.7 million people around the world, he said. It also has supported treatment and prevention programs that have helped HIV-positive women give birth to nearly 200,000 infants who are HIV-free."
The bill passed by the US House of Representatives in April approved $50 billion, including $5 billion for malaria, $4 billion for tuberculosis and $41 billion for AIDS. Of the AIDS money, a proportion -- $2 billion next year -- would go to the international Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Actual spending levels still have to be approved in annual appropriations bills.
Source: World Bank Press Review, July 17, 2008
(Photo: Capital building where US Senate meets.)
The Associated Press (AP) reported that the statement "...said that when the program was launched in 2003, about 50,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa were receiving anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS. Today, the program supports lifesaving anti-retroviral treatment for more than 1.7 million people around the world, he said. It also has supported treatment and prevention programs that have helped HIV-positive women give birth to nearly 200,000 infants who are HIV-free."
The bill passed by the US House of Representatives in April approved $50 billion, including $5 billion for malaria, $4 billion for tuberculosis and $41 billion for AIDS. Of the AIDS money, a proportion -- $2 billion next year -- would go to the international Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Actual spending levels still have to be approved in annual appropriations bills.
Source: World Bank Press Review, July 17, 2008
