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Voice of America - January 29, 2003
Joe De Capua
Washington
In his State of the Union Address last night, President Bush called an Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Mr. Bush is proposing to spend $15 billion dollars over five years, including "nearly $10 billion in new money." Currently, the US spends about $1 billion dollars annualy to combat HIV/AIDS. The emphasis of the new spending would be on Africa - location of most of the HIV/AIDS cases and deaths - and the Caribbean.
Of the new spending, about $1 billion dollars would go to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The US has contributed $500 million dollars already to the Global Fund. However, the Fund's director, Richard Feachem, says the Fund needs up to $3 or 4 billion dollars over the next two years.
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