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AIDS activists call on Obama to keep campaign promises for Africa

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published October 2, 2009.

Some advocates are disappointed by signals that the global fight against HIV and AIDS might not get the funding it needs. As the new fiscal year begins, they are wondering if President Obama is backing down on campaign promises to aggressively fight AIDS in
Africa. FSRN's Tanya Snyder reports from Washington.