The US House of Representatives has approved a nearly 50-billion-dollar aid package to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the developing world over the next five years.
The legislation, approved last week by the Senate and likely to be signed next week by President George W. Bush, also repeals a 15-year-old US law that bars HIV-positive visitors and immigrants from being granted visas to the United States. The bill extends and expands a 15-billion-dollar Nigeria 'must ban' ex-minister ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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