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HIV/AIDS
House PEPFAR AIDS Bill an ''Historic Retreat'' on Treatment, Says AHF
April 19th, 2008
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) (www.aidshealth.org), which provides AIDS medical care to more than 65,000 individuals in 20 countries worldwide, expressed its profound disappointment with the House of Representatives for its the passage today of the bill to reauthorize PEPFAR (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), the successful US global AIDS program. The bill (House Resolution 5501 (the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act)), has absolutely no requirement that any of the $50 billion being allocated to PEPFAR over the next five years be spent on treatment. The current version of the bill...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-04-19)
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