Demonstrators Protest U.S. Polices on AIDS

ceo_pte

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You have got to be kidding me... Are these people serious? There intelligence/insight rivals many of the liberals in the U.S.
I may be wrong, but I was always under the impression the less they spent administering the money, the more they could spend on the people.


JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Hundreds of demonstrators marched Thursday to protest U.S. policies on AIDS, demanding that President Bush do more to treat and prevent the disease.

We promote choice, we don't dictate like George Bush. His policy is killing people, it is making the problem worse," said Mark Heywood, a leader of the South African activist group Treatment Action Campaign.

In Cape Town, U.S. Consulate spokesman Louis Mazel spoke to about 350 demonstrators from the back of a flatbed truck.

"I know we have differences on how funding is coming together, whether it goes to the Global Fund, whether it goes through a bilateral program," he said. "The U.S. is the largest contributor in the world to combating HIV and AIDS through both means."

In South Africa, he said, the U.S. government elected to pass money through bilateral donors rather than the Global Fund because that meant one less level of administration. .

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040624/D83DE4UO0.html
 
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