U.S. Government Should Double Global Health Spending By 2012, IOM Report Says

President-elect Barack Obama’s administration and Congress should double annual U.S. international health aid to $15 billion by 2012, and Obama should appoint a senior official to work with a White House committee for coordinating such aid with other areas of foreign affairs, according to a National Institute of Medicine report released Monday,

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