Bush backing away from AIDS funding
New York Times | But let's keep spending money to promote Christianity, disguised as teen abstinence programs!
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... Mr. Bush has highlighted the programs in his fund-raising speeches. He told an audience in St. Louis this month that his administration had accepted its global duties to fight 'disease, and starvation, and hopeless poverty.'