http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2007/01/19/aids-funding-in-jeopardy-in-the-new-congress/ Just what it says Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:25:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2007/01/19/aids-funding-in-jeopardy-in-the-new-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Politics and Policy of HIV/AIDS » Dem’s coming round on HIV/AIDS funding Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:17:17 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/politicshiv/2007/01/19/aids-funding-in-jeopardy-in-the-n#comment-109 [...] Well, in what I’m sure was a direct response to criticism by blogs like this one (joke!) that the Democrats were about to underfund U.S. contributions to the fight against AIDS, Democratic leaders in Congress are starting to put more money in the budget. The Times reported on February 2nd that: But the new Democratic leadership agreed this week to give the administration $4.5 billion this year to combat the big three global pandemics, $500 million more than the president himself had requested and over $1 billion more than if the undertakings had been required to continue at the previous year’s spending levels. The House on Wednesday approved the global health financing as part of an omnibus budget measure. The Senate is expected to take up the bill as early as next week. [...] [...] Well, in what I’m sure was a direct response to criticism by blogs like this one (joke!) that the Democrats were about to underfund U.S. contributions to the fight against AIDS, Democratic leaders in Congress are starting to put more money in the budget. The Times reported on February 2nd that: But the new Democratic leadership agreed this week to give the administration $4.5 billion this year to combat the big three global pandemics, $500 million more than the president himself had requested and over $1 billion more than if the undertakings had been required to continue at the previous year’s spending levels. The House on Wednesday approved the global health financing as part of an omnibus budget measure. The Senate is expected to take up the bill as early as next week. [...]

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