The increase is primarily for health programs in poor countries that will build on U.S.-funded efforts to combat AIDS. President Barack Obama’s budget boosts global health initiatives by almost 10 percent — expanding child and maternal health programs that coincide with AIDS relief programs in the world’s poorest countries.

The new global health initiative reiterated the administration’s pledge to put more than four million people on HIV/AIDS drug therapy and prevent more than 12 million new HIV infections by 2014.

AIDS/HIV continues to be a scourge worldwide, to say nothing of its prevalence here in the United States, as well as here in Minnesota — whose increases in incidence and prevalence should not only spur new efforts at education, but also at healthcare delivery with respect to this still-fatal virus. | LINK

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