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President Obama has announced that the U.S. will expand AIDS treatment targets, providing antiretroviral drugs for an additional two million people through 2013. Unfortunately, Congress does not support his administration’s new goal of creating an “AIDS-free generation.”

In fact, the House of Representatives has proposed broad cuts to global health funding for 2012 that would severely impact AIDS funding
â€" not just impeding progress, but reversing it. This includes slashing the U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

This would be a huge mistake. Reducing support for global health would put millions of people at risk. It would deal a devastating blow to the global fight against AIDS, which has reached a critical point.

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