Undertow
08-06-2008, 02:41 PM
http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/C372C892-C117-486C-8DB7-86F8773A04D9.asp
The reauthorisation is vastly more than the White House requested, and is the result of a concerted campaign by advocates to extend the scope as well as the volume of US funding for AIDS relief. A total of $48 billion will be available over the next five years, of which $12.6 billion will go towards malaria and TB programmes. $2 billion could go to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in 2009, a substantial increase in US support.
The bill also contains an amendment inserted by the Senate that ends the ban on entry of HIV-positive people to the United States as visitors, refugees or asylum seekers. HIV-positive people will no longer be required to seek a special visa waiver through a US embassy abroad if they wish to visit the US, a decision that has been widely welcomed by advocates worldwide.
The reauthorisation is vastly more than the White House requested, and is the result of a concerted campaign by advocates to extend the scope as well as the volume of US funding for AIDS relief. A total of $48 billion will be available over the next five years, of which $12.6 billion will go towards malaria and TB programmes. $2 billion could go to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in 2009, a substantial increase in US support.
The bill also contains an amendment inserted by the Senate that ends the ban on entry of HIV-positive people to the United States as visitors, refugees or asylum seekers. HIV-positive people will no longer be required to seek a special visa waiver through a US embassy abroad if they wish to visit the US, a decision that has been widely welcomed by advocates worldwide.