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President Obama unveils $63 billion, Six-Year Global Health Plan
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As reported by AFP ... US President Barack Obama said Tuesday he would ask Congress for $63 billion dollars over six years to battle chronic global health crises, including AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
The initiative, which officials said would increase levels of spending already pushed to historic heights by the administration of Obama's predecessor George W. Bush, will also target neglected tropical diseases, infant mortality and other health threats.
"... I am asking Congress to approve my Fiscal Year 2010 Budget request of 8.6 billion dollars and 63 billion dollars over six years to shape a new, comprehensive global health strategy," Obama said.
As the United States and other global powers monitored an outbreak of swine flu that started in Mexico, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton billed the global health initiative as a key plank of foreign policy...
"The President's new global health initiative will be a crucial component of American foreign policy and a signature element of smart power," Clinton said in a statement.
"Bringing better health to people around the globe is an avenue to a more secure, stable, and prosperous world," she added.
Read on at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090505/pl_afp/usobamahealthaidsdiseas...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported by AFP ... US President Barack Obama said Tuesday he would ask Congress for $63 billion dollars over six years to battle chronic global health crises, including AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
The initiative, which officials said would increase levels of spending already pushed to historic heights by the administration of Obama's predecessor George W. Bush, will also target neglected tropical diseases, infant mortality and other health threats.
"... I am asking Congress to approve my Fiscal Year 2010 Budget request of 8.6 billion dollars and 63 billion dollars over six years to shape a new, comprehensive global health strategy," Obama said.
As the United States and other global powers monitored an outbreak of swine flu that started in Mexico, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton billed the global health initiative as a key plank of foreign policy...
"The President's new global health initiative will be a crucial component of American foreign policy and a signature element of smart power," Clinton said in a statement.
"Bringing better health to people around the globe is an avenue to a more secure, stable, and prosperous world," she added.
Read on at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090505/pl_afp/usobamahealthaidsdiseas...
ENJOY!
CC
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