Advocates Urge Obama To Increase Global Health Spending, Others Call For Freeze On Foreign Aid

While more than 100 global health and development organizations have signed on to several policy papers urging President-elect Barack Obama’s administration to increase spending for HIV/AIDS, global health and development assistance, one dozen House Republicans argue that the current economic downturn necessitates a freeze on foreign aid, CQ Today reports. One letter, submitted by the

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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on December 20th, 2008