PEPFAR bill passes Senate committee
Published by AWills March 16th, 2008 in News“Senate Foreign Relations Committee Approves PEPFAR Reauthorization Bill,” Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 14 March 2008.
Thursday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to reauthorize the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief at a cost of $50 billion over the next five years. No amendments were considered presently for the senate bill introduced by Sen. Biden of Delaware. Of the $50 billion, $4 billion would be allocated to tuberculosis programs and another $5 billion for malaria programs.
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