Bush proposes $500 million to fight AIDS

Thursday, June 20, 2002

WASHINGTON -- With 2,000 babies infected each day by the AIDS virus, President Bush proposed spending $500 million over the next five years to stop HIV-infected women in Africa and the Caribbean from transmitting the disease.

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