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Caribbean Leaders Ask Congress to Expand AIDS-Relief Plan.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2003
By Matthew Hay Brown, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 3--SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Caribbean leaders are pushing Congress to expand President Bush's $15 billion AIDS-relief plan to include more nations, saying broader help is needed to stop the spread of the epidemic.
While they welcome the aid, which targets Haiti and Guyana along with 12 African nations, they liken the approach in the Caribbean to treating only two organs in a body quickly being ravaged by cancer.
"Whatever happens in one specific corner of the region will have an impact in other places," said Rafael Mazin, acting chief if the HIV/AIDS unit at the Pan American Health Organization. "To be effective means [HIV] . . . needs to be...
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