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Nature Medicine 9, 629 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm0603-629b

US AIDS initiative clears first hurdle

Paroma Basu1

  1. New York

The US House of Representatives on 1 May passed a $15 billion, 5-year bill that will more than double the nation's annual contributions toward stemming AIDS overseas. The money will subsidize AIDS programs in the Caribbean and 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, among the hardest hit by AIDS.