AHF To Congress: Keep PEPFAR Funding Priority On AIDS Treatment
With a bipartisan voice vote earlier today, The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed House Resolution 5501 (the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act), a bill to reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the US global AIDS program. AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) (http://www.aidshealth.
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AFP - Georgia's South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions planned rallies Thursday to ask Russia for recognition as independent states, two weeks after Russian troops occupied both provinces.