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AIDS Help.

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

The Senate has passed legislation that would pump nearly $50 billion into international programs to fight AIDS and other infectious diseases over the next five years. Sens.

US Ban on Visitors with HIV Could End Soon.

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

A two-decade ban on people with HIV visiting or immigrating to the United States may end soon through a Senate bill aimed at fighting AIDS and other diseases in Africa and other poor areas of the w

Feingold Says AIDS Bill Must Pass Soon.

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

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Mexico City to Consult Public on Calderon Energy Bill.

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Mexico City's government will hold a non-binding referendum this month on President Felipe Calderon's plan to give the state oil monopoly more leeway to hire private companies, possibly giving ammunition to opponents of the bill. [. . .]

"I don't know how truly representative a Mexico City referendum will be given the ideological orientation,'' said Armand Peschard-Sverdrup, senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "They'll most likely get the result that they're seeking."

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With AIDS Funding Bush Looks to His Legacy.

Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400

The Bush administration's global AIDS program, known widely as PEPFAR, "goes in the success column, and the administration is entering its legacy phase, where they want to try to get that column up," said J. Stephen Morrison , director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , a centrist Washington think-tank.

Morrison said most presidents have used international summits to promote their accomplishments, noting that Bush's announcement signaled that he considers the AIDS initiative one of his biggest successes. Morrison also believed the administration wants to bolster its foreign policy record by aiming to "convert fixable problems, like putting energy to get the relationship with Russia right."

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