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"Obama to outline strategy for HIV; Plan aims to curb new infections" by Robert Pear, New York Times | July 12, 2010
WASHINGTON — President Obama will unveil this week a new national strategy to curb the AIDS epidemic by slashing the number of new infections and increasing the number of people who get care and treatment.
“Annual AIDS deaths have declined, but the number of new infections has been static and the number of people living with HIV is growing,’’ says a final draft of the report, obtained by The New York Times.
In the report, the administration calls for steps to reduce the annual number of new HIV infections by 25 percent within five years. “Approximately 56,000 people become infected each year, and more than 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV,’’ the report says. Obama plans to announce the strategy, distilled from 15 months of work and discussions with thousands of people around the country, at the White House tomorrow.
While acknowledging that “increased investments in certain key areas are warranted,’’ the report does not propose a major increase in federal spending.
Nothing new there unless you are a bank, corporation, war, or Israel.
It says the administration will redirect money to areas with the greatest need and population groups at greatest risk, including gay and bisexual men and African-Americans. The federal government now spends more than $19 billion a year on domestic AIDS programs.
On average, the report says, one person is newly infected with HIV every nine and a half minutes, but tens of thousands of people with the virus are not receiving any care. If they got care, the report says, they could prolong their own lives and reduce the spread of the virus to others....
The first-ever national AIDS strategy has been in the works since the start of the administration. It comes in the context of growing frustrations expressed by some gay rights groups.
Translation: Obama is pandering to that hateful lobby.
They say that more money is urgently needed for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, and they assert that the White House has not done enough to secure repeal of the law banning military service by people who are openly gay or bisexual....
There they go again, wanting to die for a lie. Better you than my kid.
Obama offers a compliment to President George W. Bush, who made progress against AIDS in Africa by setting clear goals and holding people accountable. The program begun by Bush, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, “has taught us valuable lessons about fighting HIV and scaling up efforts around the world that can be applied to the domestic epidemic,’’ the report says....
See: Obama Abandons Africa to AIDS
Now that just seems a bit disingenuous, doesn't it?
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