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Bush Caribbean. ft to ri Ivesto Vietnam gets help to fight AID- plant wh By Thomas Fitzgerald KRT CAMPUS PHILADELPHIA _ Calling the worldwide spread of HIV/AIDS a “direct challenge to the compassion of our country,” President Bush announced Wednesday that Vietnam would be added to the list of nations eligible for emergency U.S. help in Fighting the epidemic. “We're putting a history of bitterness behind us with Vietnam ” Bush said, speaking at the Greater Exodus Baptist Church in Philadelphia, a largely African-American congregation with faith-based social programs. Bush said the administration is poised to send $500 million more to prevent and treat the disease in Vietnam and 14 other countries in Africa and the Caribbean. AIDS activists had wanted the administration to target India or China, both of which have more peo ple suffering from the disease, but a senior admin istration official said that the money would have a greater impact in Vietnam, in part because Hanoi spends more money per capita on the epidemic. “Vietnam is cooperative and wants help,” Bush said. “In other words, they recognize they have a problem _ which, by the way, is an important part of battling the pandemic.” Some countries are “in denial ” he said. Turning to the struggle against HIV/AIDS in the United States, Bush announced $20 million in new funding to deliver anti-retroviral drugs to patients on waiting lists for the life-extending drugs. “We are fighting one of the great tragedies of human history,” Bush said. Bush has often cited the funding of AIDS pre vention and treatment programs in the Third World as an example of his “compassionate con servatism,” a theme obscured by the Iraq war but one the president has returned to recently in his re- election campaign. Tl pc By In his 2(X)3 State of the Union address, pledged $15 billion over five years to fighj spread of the virus that causes AIDS andi people with the syndrome. HIV has infectedri than 45 million people in the world, and All ^ the leading cause of death in Africa. But AIDS activists say the administration!^ lived up to its commitment, noting that Bushy only $2.4 billion in this year's budget forglobail vention and treatment while seeking to cut the .i contribution to the multinational Global AIDS! Only $350 million of Bush's pledge has v allocated so far. and Congress is weighing Kate request to spend the additional $500 millia p; rked touted here. Activists also say that the admin;: house oi tion favors big pharmaceutical companies didn't tl refusing to distribute generic drugs made abva she r; "It's amazing the president had the audacit||an 30 stand up in a black church and tell more fibs, local pul Paul Davis, the director of governmental relat "1 di of Health Gap. a network of organizations seel ferent w greater access to AIDS drugs in the Third Wo: $kl ther Democratic presidential candidate Johnli h er wall joined activists in calling for a quicker releay By se al money. “It is long past time for empty rheton iiarketir this issue," he said in a written statement. ^ atte The president also highlighted the roleo(feT r ! tents based organizations in fighting AIDS, callk t , con Americans to help. sai1 “Every man woman and child with thisaf jjr 111 s tion, from the streets of Philadelphia to the y J; en lages of Africa, is a child of God who deserve: „ lc - * tor some hd none Win fUBB Semester Tuition love and help,” Bush said to murmured ass from the invited crowd. “To me it's patriot love a neighbor as you'd like to be loved yours- On a more temporal plane. 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