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Congress Sends Global HIV/AIDS Legislation to the President

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 7th, 2008

The landmark U.S. effort to fight HIV/AIDS around the world will be expanded and extended by five years thanks to legislation that Congress passed today.

By a vote of 303 to 115, the House approved Senate amendments to the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act (H.R. 5501), which passed the House in its original form in April. President Bush plans to sign the measure into law next week.

Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, shepherded the legislation through the House and took an active role in negotiations with the Senate. In...

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