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The Ridge Apartments
2250 Dartmouth
College Station, TX 77840
(979) 694-4100
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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.
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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!
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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;
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church to a fund-raiser in Radnor Township.;
which raised an estimated $1.5 million for:
Republican Party's Victory 2004 voter-luu:
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4 Bd/ 2 Bath
Fully Furnished
Free Cable, HBO
Free Ethernet
Free Video Library
Lighted Volleyball Courts, Basketball
& Tennis Courts
Washer & Dryer in every apartment
*350 per month
Rates are per person
On A&M Bus Route
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