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http://healthgap.org/press/documents/WADreportcard.pdfhttp://healthgap.org/press/documents/WADreportcard.pdf....U.S. FUNDING FOR GLOBAL AIDS:
Despite repeated public commitments to
expand funding for successful global
AIDS programs, the first budget request to
Congress prepared by President Obama,
for FY2010, would essentially flat-fund
U.S. global AIDS investments—this
budget request would not even keep pace
with the estimated rate of global medical inflation (4-10% for 2009).8 Specifically, President Obama requested a slight
increase in bilateral AIDS funding,
but requested a cut of the same
amount for the Global Fund. At the
country level, flatlining in Washington
is translating into actual budget cuts in
many programs, sending shock waves
through communities and calling into
question the sincerity of the
Administration’s commitment to
reaching the coverage levels promised
under the 2008 Lantos-Hyde Act,
which passed with overwhelming
bipartisan support and was cosponsored
by then-Senators Obama,
Clinton, and Biden. Administration
officials have signaled that they will likely request the same in FY2011 as 2010—a roughly 2% increase. These budget
requests contrast starkly with the funding trajectory required to conform with the Lantos-Hyde Act spending levels
President Obama promised to reach (see graph and text box, above)..........................................