AIDS Activists Sound the Alarm on Obama's Budget | OneWorld.net (U.S.)

OneWorld | Jul. 10, 2009 (News Report)

Over two dozen AIDS activists were arrested just outside the U.S. Capitol building yesterday while protesting President Barack Obama's failure to honor his campaign promises of increased funding for AIDS programs. During the election, Obama pledged to spend over $1 billion a year on global AIDS and to fully fund housing for HIV-positive people in need. Activists say the administration's 2010 budget proposal does not live up to these promises. Full Story »

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Patricia Blochowiak
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 by Patricia Blochowiak - Jul. 11, 2009

Gives the positions of various AIDS activists on the Obama administration's actions, or lack of actions. Would be better if it had included the position of the Obama administration and the position of health activists who think that it has fragmented, and thus actually decreased, the quality of health care in Africa by siphoning money and personnel away from necessary primary care services, rather than integrating them.

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