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posted by AIDS Healthcare Foundation at
8:21 PM
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weldone ADH. we still need PEPFAR. It is really performing wonders in subsaharan africa empowering households, OVC and the youth. Stopping it now will mean literally removing food from the mouths of starving women and children. In fact our priority is food, food, food and food. I personally can't think of any better medication than food.
Congress should listen to those in the trenches, those whose life work is dedicated to saving lives and alleviating the pain and suffering of those living with HIV. If there is no requirements on such funding then, like the Michael Weinstein suggests, it is doomed to be spent unwisely. How can we feed and empower those who have died from the disease due to a lack of life-saving medications? Congress has a long history of spending sumptuously on pedestrian items without thought of where the money is coming from and why people have originally lobbied for it. However, with PEPFAR there is one main undeniable objective: saving lives through medication. It seems as though with the current administration's behavior of cutting programs, they are attempting to use these funds to make up some of the losses.
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