At the annual U.S.-E.U. summit today, President Bush will ask for support from the European Union in fighting treatable diseases in Africa.

From Reuters:

“These are seven significant diseases which together afflict close to a billion people,” Dan Price, deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, told reporters aboard Air Force One as Bush flew to the summit in Slovenia.

“These diseases are treatable and beatable by medicines that are available today,” Price said, adding that it would cost around $1 billion. The United States has already committed $350 million over the next five years, he said.

-Virginia Simmons

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