Friday, June 8, 2007

G-8 offers $60B to combat AIDS in Africa

Germany's development minister said Friday the Group of Eight member states had agreed on a program worth more than $60 billion to combat the spread of HIV/AIDs in Africa.

"That has been agreed upon," Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul told state ZDF television, ahead of talks between the leaders at the G-8 summit in the northern German resort of Heiligendamm.

source : news.yahoo.com

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