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HIV/AIDS
Congress Moves to Correct and Expand AIDS Response
March 15th, 2008
As a fitting tribute to the late Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, Republicans and Democrats have crafted a bipartisan compromise to support AIDS, TB and malaria policy. The agreement will set US programs on a new five-year course. The bill was approved this morning at a House Foreign Relations Committee mark-up and likely be approved by the full House next week. "This historic agreement will save millions of lives, if approved by the full Congress and then fully funded," said Dr. Paul Zeitz, Executive Director of the Global AIDS Alliance. "With bi-partisan support, Congress is beginning to fix aspects of the AIDS program that were clearly not working. ...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-03-15)
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