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US senators exempt HIV/Aids funding from planned spending cuts

US senators exempt HIV/Aids funding from planned spending cuts

Republicans in the US Senate have said they will spare the US-backed HIV/Aids programme Pepfar from cuts, amid a larger effort to reduce government spending. Senators said they would end a plan to cut $400m (£300m) from the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief programme, leaving total proposed cuts at $9bn. The proposition was made in a Senate amendment to …

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