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AIDS Healthcare Foundation
AHF Chart Shows How Senate Global AIDS Bill Will Save Five to Seven Million Lives
August 8th, 2008
A chart prepared by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) (www.aidshealth.org), which provides AIDS care and treatment services to more than 79,000 individuals in 20 countries worldwide, shows how the Senate version of legislation to re-authorize PEPFAR (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), the successful US global AIDS program, will be able to save five to seven million lives over the next five years. The program is on pace to treat two million people by the end of this year. The Senate bill, which requires that more than half of the $39 billion allocated to HIV/AIDS be spent on medical care and lifesaving antiretroviral treatment, passed in the Senate last week in a 60 to 13 vote....
Source: Health Business Week (2008-08-08)
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