WHCB: “Congress May Increase Global Health Funding”

“Press reports are now in that Congress may pass a foreign operations/aid proposed budget that will include almost a billion dollar increase over FY07 spending for global health. According to Laurie Garrett, a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, a total of $6.342 billion will be directed to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, continuing the U.S. trend of emphasis on the three big infectious diseases.”

See my entire post over at the World Health Care Blog.


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