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News/Event Item
Global Health Funding Must Match U.S. Leadership Role
Statement
Contact: Lynnette Johnson Williams, Global Health Council
202.327.5003 (office) or ljohnsonwilliams@globalhealth.org
2 February 2004
Dr. Nils Daulaire, President and CEO of the Global Health Council, calls for increased leadership and funding for core global health in response to the President's fiscal year 2005 budget:
Washington, D.C. - "The funds requested for global health in the President's budget fall short of the leadership role that the President laid out in his 2003 State of the Union message. The world's most pressing health concerns - the needless deaths of millions of children and mothers as well as the relentless spread of AIDS - are growing at a far greater rate than our federal commitment.
"Now is not the time to reduce funding for programs that reach the world's mothers and children.
"When Congress begins writing its version of next year's budget, we encourage them to continue to support the President's efforts to increase our commitment to global AIDS and to restore funding to those programs that have a track record in saving the lives of mothers and children, preserving healthy families, and stemming the spread of other infectious disease killers."
View this Statement in PDF format: PDF (12K)
category: Global Health Council News : Announcements
contributed by Andrea Welch on 2 February 2004
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