Promises, promises: big talk aside, Bush's go-it-alone global AIDS strategy is hurting more than it's helping.
American Prospect, The, August, 2004 by Casriel, Erika
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AT THE JUNE 2003 G8 SUMMIT IN EVIAN, FRANCE, PRESIDENT George W. Bush met with the other heads of state at a private dinner. There, according to sources close to two dinner guests, he promised the Europeans that if they gave $1 billion to a new joint AIDS fund, he would match it. But by July, Bush was urging Congress to supply no more than $200 million for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. "I think everybody felt fooled," says a Global Fund official.
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Ultimately, Congress rebelled, increasing the U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to $547 ...
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