WASHINGTON: The Senate voted on Wednesday to triple spending for a program that has treated and protected millions in Africa and elsewhere from AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
The measure, approved 80 to 16, would commit the United States to spending up to $48 billion over the next five years for the most ambitious foreign public health program ever developed by the United States.
The legislation would replace and expand the current $15 billion act that President George W. Bush championed in a State of the Union address and that Congress passed in 2003. That act expires at the end of September
Thursday, July 17, 2008