New U.S. Plan to Battle AIDS Slows Growth in Treatment
As the Obama administration slowly unveils its global AIDS plan, the drive to put more people on drugs is being scaled back as emphasis is shifted to prevention and to diseases that cost less to fight, including pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and fatal birth complications.
AIDS activists complained bitterly that they have been betrayed and that the Bush administration’s best legacy is being gutted — and they blame a doctor and budget advisor who is also the brother of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
“I’m holding my nose as I say this, but I miss George W. Bush,” said Gregg Gonsalves a long-time AIDS campaigner. “On AIDS, he really stepped up. He did a tremendous thing. Now, to have this happen under Obama is really depressing.”
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
New U.S. Plan to Battle AIDS Slows Growth in Treatment
Portends the new Obamacare? Oh, you have a serious, but costly illness. Too bad.
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