TB Bill Passes!
The Brown-Durbin-Brownback-Boxer amendment to increase TB funding passed the Senate yesterday as part of the FY08 Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill.
The amendment would provide an additional $90 million in funding, bringing the U.S. total investment for TB assistance to $200 million!
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH):
“Tuberculosis kills 1.6 million people a year in developing countries…Unchecked, drug resistant TB, including deadly XDR-TB, threatens to reverse progress made against AIDS and TB worldwide. In today’s world, extensively drug-resistant TB poses a grave public health threat never more than a plane ride away.”
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September 7, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Congratulations to all of our ONE members who lobbied for the passage of this amendment to increase TB funding in the FY 2008 federal budget!
And good work on what we have been able to accomplish in increasing funding for the PEPFAR program and the Global Fund.
But the MCA (Millenium Challenge Account) still is woefully underfunded in the Senate version of the budget and that seems where our movement to end extreme poverty needs to focus our attention.
I hope that there will be more action alerts in the future concerning funding for the MCA from ONE.~
Take very good care of each other. Blessings always.
AS ONE, debbie
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