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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

NY Times on Hillary Clinton’s AIDS Plan—and the other candidates

November 27, 2007

Clinton to Offer an AIDS Policy, Joining Her Main Rivals

By PATRICK HEALY and LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will propose steps today to strengthen the government’s strategy to battle H.I.V. and AIDS in the United States and the rest of the world, becoming the latest Democratic presidential candidate to commit to a significant expansion of federal efforts to combat the epidemic.

Mrs. Clinton’s two main rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Barack Obama and John Edwards, have already released plans of their own. Taking Mrs. Clinton’s into account, the three approaches are similar in terms of spending, goals and differences with President Bush’s AIDS policy.

Like her rivals, Mrs. Clinton proposed spending at least $50 billion cumulatively on global initiatives to combat H.I.V. and AIDS by 2013; the Bush administration has budgeted $30 billion for that period. She would also double money for H.I.V./AIDS research at the National Institutes of Health to $5.2 billion annually.

Mr. Edwards, in… (more)