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President awards Harvard $107m in Africa AIDS fight
By John Donnelly, Globe Staff, 2/24/2004
PRETORIA -- President Bush launched his global AIDS program yesterday by awarding multimillion-dollar grants to four US-based institutions, including $107 million to Harvard's School of Public Health, to treat those suffering from the deadly virus in three African nations.
The grant to Harvard is the largest received by the School of Public Health, easily surpassing a $25 million grant in 2000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in Nigeria.
"Our intent has been to move as quickly as possible
to bring immediate relief to those suffering the devastation of AIDS," said Randall Tobias, the US global AIDS coordinator, who announced the grants in Washington.
The first installments of Bush
'
;s $15 billion five-year AIDS fight come a
gainst a backdrop of recent allegations from activists critical of the administration's go-it-alone approach and a delay in releasing the money.
more at...
http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/ar...s_fight?mode=PF
By John Donnelly, Globe Staff, 2/24/2004
PRETORIA -- President Bush launched his global AIDS program yesterday by awarding multimillion-dollar grants to four US-based institutions, including $107 million to Harvard's School of Public Health, to treat those suffering from the deadly virus in three African nations.
The grant to Harvard is the largest received by the School of Public Health, easily surpassing a $25 million grant in 2000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in Nigeria.
"Our intent has been to move as quickly as possible
to bring immediate relief to those suffering the devastation of AIDS," said Randall Tobias, the US global AIDS coordinator, who announced the grants in Washington.
The first installments of Bush
'
;s $15 billion five-year AIDS fight come a
gainst a backdrop of recent allegations from activists critical of the administration's go-it-alone approach and a delay in releasing the money.
more at...
http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/ar...s_fight?mode=PF