HIV/AIDS

Congress Moves to Correct and Expand AIDS Response

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 11th, 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.

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