Reply #6: I don't want to get you in a weak moment

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But when you feel like reasing it, Kerry's plans for the global spread of AIDS/HIV begins by depending on actual science to combat it as opposed to faith based healing and underfunded programs.

It includes a program to bring newer technology to the field, to continue to work towards a vaccine and make it affordable in other nations where the disease is taking off, and decrease the amount of time it takes for funds to reach those nations.

He also plans to fully fund programs to deliver these promises with a 30 billion dollar program that involves cooperation by other nations and by corporations as well to reach the goal of 30 billion in funding by 2008.

He plans on icreasing the number of people getting treatment by working with guidelines set by the WHO.

He also focuses on other deadly diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria that are making comebacks in drug resistant forms as well. These diseases are just as deadly as AIDS.

He will further put pressure on nations ignoring the AIDS crisis for political gain or other customs and will remove ideological ties to funding global AIDS battles.

He goes a step further in a plan to train healthcare workers in the US thereby increasing the available people to meet the needs of the ill.

He has proposed trade policy in the area of drugs that does NOT use the US power to undermine WHO's goal regarding treatment and proposes the use of bulk purchase deals to further reduce costs to poorer nations.

His programs are also aimed at providing further education and actual protection from AIDS to women and shildren, the fastest growing disease sector and especially to children orphaned by AIDS around the world.

Here is a an article praising his proposals on mental healthcare but also his site addresses his healthcare proposals including a Patient's Bill of Rights that IIRC addresses this.

http://www.bazelon.org/newsroom/9-12-03kerry.htm