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Bush Scaling Back Dollars for Third World
By ELIZABETH BECKER
Published: January 29, 2004
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 — President Bush plans to scale back requests for money to fight AIDS and poverty in the third world, putting off for several years the fulfillment of his pledges to eventually spend more than $20 billion on these programs.
Hardest hit would be the United Nations-supported Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, whose contribution from the United States would drop to $200 million in fiscal year 2005 from $550 million, according to Congressional officials who have been briefed on the president's budget proposal.
Posted by Prometheus 6 on January 29, 2004 - 1:09am :: Politics
