"White House developing AIDS strategy"

[Clio the Leo]

W.H. developing AIDS strategy

Promoting PEPFAR
W.H. developing AIDS strategy
By KENDRA MARR | 11/30/09 5:13 PM

The White House will establish a 5-year strategic plan for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), originally launched by President George W. Bush, later this week. The plan will create partnerships with other countries to promote a more sustainable approach to combating HIV/AIDS, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a Monday event on the eve of World AIDS Day.

The plan, Clinton said, will also expand the government’s investments in mother-to-child HIV transmission programs.

“Promoting the health of women strengthens families and communities and has positive spillover effects in areas like poverty reduction and education,” she said.

And early next year, the United States will start allowing foreigners living with HIV/AIDS to enter the country – a change the government will be “vigorously enforcing,” said Clinton.

“The AIDS entry ban, the HIV entry ban was a policy that tore apart families, kept people from getting tested, forced others to hide their HIV status and forgo life-saving medication,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said at the same event Monday, highlighting administration efforts to fight HIV and AIDS. “And most of all it didn’t reflect America’s leadership in fighting the disease around the world.”

President Obama also took steps earlier this year to curb the disease. He reauthorized the Ryan White Program, which works to address the treatment needs of over half a million persons living with HIV/AIDS, and launched Act Against AIDS, a 5-year HIV awareness campaign.

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http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/1109/promoting_pepfar_849f923f-4df3-4531-8fa0-aa27fb4318b8.html

[Oregone]

1. Send a couple brigades of troops in with billions behind em

What problem wont that solve?

[AVID]

2. K&R

[Cha]

3. They are getting things

DONE.

[HopeOverFear]

4. Indeed.

[Hekate]

5. Yes he is

getting things done

Hekate