Kucinich on World AIDS Day, 12/1/03 [View All]

Kucinich on World AIDS Day, 12/1/03

"The Secretary General of the United Nations has called on world leaders to aggressively combat the AIDS epidemic that is devastating Africa and making serious inroads in Asia and around the world. Kofi Annan has lamented the lack of world leadership on this issue. He is right to complain. AIDS has taken 28 million lives since 1981. That's more than the soldiers who have been killed in some of the biggest wars in human history. But, in contrast to the U.S. Pentagon budget of $400 billion plus additional hundreds of billions for particular wars, President Bush pledged only $3 billion for the fight against AIDS in his State of the Union address and then proposed only $2 billion in his budget request. Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois, introduced an amendment adding an extra $289 million and shamed the Republican leadership into supporting the measure. But this is far from sufficient." READ MORE

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