Has President Obama Broken a Campaign Promise Regarding HIV / TB Funding?
Has President Obama Broken a Campaign Promise Regarding HIV / TB Funding? Sunday May 10, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)During his campaign for the Presidency, Barack Obama promised $1 billion each year in additional funding to fight the global issues of HIV, malaria, and TB. Yet, when he released his 2010 budget proposal, that figure was more like $165 million; a far cry from the $1 billion we anticipated. While malaria receives a significant boost, Obamas call for a meager increase in the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) budget is no match for the scope of the AIDS crisis, which killed 2 million people in 2007, nearly 5,500 a day. Many experts in the public health world are asking why Citi Bank, AIG, and Chrysler merit billions of dollars in government funding and diseases that are killing thousands of people globally each year is getting only small increases in funding
Has President Obama Broken a Campaign Promise Regarding HIV / TB Funding? Sunday May 10, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)During his campaign for the Presidency, Barack Obama promised $1 billion each year in additional funding to fight the global issues of HIV, malaria, and TB. Yet, when he released his 2010 budget proposal, that figure was more like $165 million; a far cry from the $1 billion we anticipated. While malaria receives a significant boost, Obamas call for a meager increase in the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) budget is no match for the scope of the AIDS crisis, which killed 2 million people in 2007, nearly 5,500 a day. Many experts in the public health world are asking why Citi Bank, AIG, and Chrysler merit billions of dollars in government funding and diseases that are killing thousands of people globally each year is getting only small increases in funding
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