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To: Bilow who wrote (116482)	10/9/2003 11:10:40 PM
From: Sam Citron	Respond to of 281500

I fail to see what all this talk about AIDS has to do with foreign affairs. In his State of the Union address, George Bush pledged $15 billion for AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean over five years. However, instead of $3 billion for the first year, Mr. Bush backtracked to just $2 billion (much of it already in the pipeline). He's also trying to cut urgently needed contributions to the Global Fund, an international partnership to fight AIDS. The administration is also fumbling the AIDS initiative by requiring that one-third of AIDS prevention funds do nothing but encourage sexual abstinence until marriage. This is the kind of stipulation set by people who sit in Washington and have never actually set foot in an African village. nytimes.com.