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Giuliani said increasing trade with African nations will help those governments solve public health problems on their own.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) – When faced with several questions about AIDS in Africa during a recent campaign stop in South Carolina, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani offered few specifics on public health issues but said that increasing U.S. trade with Africa will help “the problems, the issues, everything” facing the continent.

After a brief speech to supporters at his South Carolina state headquarters last week, Giuliani was asked about AIDS, antiretroviral drugs and health care workers in Africa by three medical students in the audience.

Giuliani was questioned on whether he would renew PEPFAR, or the President’s Plan for Emergency AIDS Relief, which is due to expire in 2008.

The $15 billion, five-year U.S.-led initiative provides drugs to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in… (more)