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HIV/AIDS
AHF to Congress: Keep PEPFAR Funding Priority on AIDS Treatment
March 15th, 2008
With a bipartisan voice vote earlier today, The House Foreign Affairs Committee today passed House Resolution 5501 (the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act), a bill to reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the US global AIDS program. AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) (www.aidshealth.org) commended the Committee for removing a controversial and counterproductive 'abstinence-only' funding component in the bill. However, AHF sharply criticized the Committee and Congress for removing a current requirement that 55% of all PEPFAR funds be spent on AIDS treatment, a change which...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-03-15)
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