Sunday, November 25, 2007
Giuliani says he’ll continue or expand Bush Global AIDS funding!
Felipe and his mom Katherine traveled to a Giuliani town hall in Nashua, NH—Felipe got the third question: “I am a medical student here and have helped to take care of patients in this country and abroad. I am also deeply concerned about national security. Colin Powell said that one of the great threats to America is global destabilization due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. We have made promises to children in Africa—children like these (gesturing to the kids sitting in front of him)—but who are orphans, that we have broken promises to. The amount of development aid we give is much less than we have promised. We promised to give 0.7% of Gross National Income, or 70 cents on every 100 dollars, to global development, but we only give about 25 cents on every hundred dollars. As President, will you commit, not only to increasing our foreign development aid—now this is not the military but development—to 0.7 percent of our Gross National Income, and also commit 50 billion dollars of that to AIDS over the next five years?” Giuliani responded, Well, you know President Bush made historic… (more)
