| | AEGiS-PRn: AIDS Healthcare Foundation Praises Henry Hyde's Leadership on HR 1298: Committee on International Relations ... |
 | | LOS ANGELES, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- House Resolution 1298, the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003, which authorizes $15 billion in funding for the global fight against AIDS, was marked up and approved today in Washington by the House Committee on International Relations. |
 | | HR 1298 offers a comprehensive five-year response to the growing worldwide threat from HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa and the developing world. |
 | | Despite several committee members' attempts to try and add further abstinence-only measures to HR 1298 today, the bill passed in committee by a vote of 38 to 8 (without most of the additional abstinence-only measures), and now moves on to the Speaker of the House for introduction on the Floor. |
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