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Bush proposes US $15 billion for HIV/AIDS funding

    JOHANNESBURG

    US president George W. Bush has called on Congress to triple government spending on HIV/AIDS in Africa and Haiti.

    "I ask the congress to commit US $15 billion over the next five years to turn the tide against HIV/AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean," Bush said in his annual state-of-the-union address on Tuesday.

    Bush said the plan would prevent seven million new HIV infections, treat at least two million people with life-extending drugs, and provide care for millions of people and children with HIV/AIDS.

    The White House has confirmed that the plan would target Botswana, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

    View the full address at:
    http://whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

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