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Trump seeks to ‘eliminate HIV’ in US within 10 years
WASHINGTON, Feb 6, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – President Donald Trump used his State
of the Union address on Tuesday to call for a bipartisan commitment to
eradicate AIDS in the United States within a decade.
“Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach,”
Trump said in his annual address to Congress.
“My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment
to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years,” he said.
“Together, we will defeat AIDS in America and beyond.”
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