Senate agrees to triple anti-AIDS funding

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Senate agrees to triple anti-AIDS funding
U.S. to spend up to $48 billion in ambitious foreign public health program

updated 6:54 p.m. CT, Wed., July. 16, 2008

WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Wednesday to triple spending for a much-acclaimed program that has treated and protected millions in Africa and elsewhere from the scourges of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

The 80-16 vote committed the United States to spending up to $48 billion over the next five years for the most ambitious foreign public health program ever launched by the United States.

The legislation would replace and expand the current $15 billion act that President Bush championed in a State of the Union address and Congress passed in 2003. That act expires at the end of September.

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