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Bush Urges Congress to Pass AIDS Funds
July 2, 2008
President George W. Bush urged Congress to approve funds to fight AIDS in Africa and other countries, and said the issue was high on his agenda for a Group of Eight summit in Japan next week.
Members of the U.S. Senate sought last week to pass legislation to more than triple funds to fight AIDS, but some Republicans vowed to block it because of its cost.
The House of Representatives has approved its version of the measure which proposes $50 billion in U.S. funds over five years to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
© 2008 Reuters
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 3 July 2008
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