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Pelosi and House and Senate Democrats Meet with U2's Bono to Discuss Commitment to Fighting AIDS

Washington, D.C – U2 lead singer and DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) co-founder Bono joined House and Senate Democrats in the Capitol today to urge Congress to appropriate $3.6 billion to fully fund America’s commitments to global AIDS for fiscal year 2006, including $600 million for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.  Bono linked waging a war on poverty and AIDS in Africa to improving global stability, which is in America's national security interest.

 

 

From left to right: Senator Barack Obama (IL); Senator John Kerry (MA); Senate Democratic Whip Richard Durbin (IL); House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA); Bono; House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD); Congresswoman Nita Lowey (NY); Senator Patrick Leahy (VT).

 



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