Respond to HIV/AIDS
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Senate Passes Bill to Increase Funds To Fight HIV/AIDS Worldwide |
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Thursday, 20 September 2007 |
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On
Thursday, September 7, 2007, the Senate voted 81-12 to approve the fiscal year
2008 Foreign Aid Spending Bill (HR 2764 )
that would increase funds to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
worldwide. The $34 billion measure would increase President Bush's $4.2 billion
request for funds to fight HIV/AIDS globally by $940 million (Taylor, AP/International
Herald Tribune, 9/6). The measure would increase the U.S. contribution to
the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to $590 million (HR 2764 text , 9/7). In June the House passed companion legislation. Now,
the House and Senate will go to committee and begin negotiations over a final
version.
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In Zimbabwe, Children Affected by HIV Receive Increased Support |
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Monday, 17 September 2007 |
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According to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
(UNAIDS) 2006 Report, “the only evidence of declining national adult HIV
prevalence in southern Africa comes from Zimbabwe, where both HIV prevalence
and incidence has fallen.” However, this says nothing of the thousands of
children within Zimbabwe
who live each day with HIV/AIDS.
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South Africa Continues to Falter on HIV/AIDS |
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Sunday, 29 July 2007 |
South
Africa has always lagged behind in its
HIV/AIDS policy, despite having a greater capacity to address health issues
than any other sub-Saharan African country. Before 2003, President Thabo
Mbeki’s administration denied the reality of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa,
claiming it was a treatable disease, that eating beetroot was a suitable cure,
and that the President himself knew no one with the disease. His Minister of Health,
Ms. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, was the bullhorn for many of these faulty
theories, giving rise to the notion that the government was incapable of
dealing with HIV and AIDS.
In early August, an unfortunate setback was dealt to
the South African population, 12 percent of whom are estimated to be living
with the disease. President Mbeki fired
the deputy minister of health, Ms. Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, on allegations
that she attended an AIDS conference in Spain without permission. Since her
hire as deputy, Ms. Madlala-Routledge has been a credible force in the fight
against HIV and AIDS. She has been one of very few within the government to
adequately tackle the issue with real consideration and policy shifts. It is a
wonder, then, why President Mbeki thought it appropriate to dismiss her and to
allow Ms. Tshabalala-Msimang to remain.
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