With AIDS funding proposal, Bush looks to his legacy
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WASHINGTON -- Hoping to cement a positive part of his legacy, President Bush yesterday asked Congress to double the funding of the US global AIDS program to $30 billion over five years, which sets goals of helping support AIDS treatment of 2.5 million people.
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A Senate committee voted Wednesday to boost funds for battling AIDS and other diseases in poor nations but provided less than half what President Bush wanted for prodding countries to adopt democratic reforms.
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Scientists hope to be able to use a harmless form of the AIDS virus to seek destroy cancer.
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Michael F. Summers of the University of Maryland is focused on two goals: trying to cure AIDS and trying to promote diversity in scientific fields.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush, seizing on Fidel Castro's fading health as a chance for rare change, will ask other nations today to help Cuba become a free society one day by committing money and political capital to the cause.
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The Bush administration is poised to take back $1.1 billion in unspent funds, despite the president's vow to support access to health care for poor children during his convention speech.
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In the nation's first-ever $3 trillion budget, President Bush seeks to seal his legacy of promoting a strong defense to fight terrorism and tax cuts to spur the economy
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For an administration trying to solve problems such as the war in Iraq, illegal immigration and the potential meltdown of Social Security, cutting worldwide malaria deaths in half looks like low-hanging fruit -- and President Bush is intent on picking it.
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President Bush on Wednesday nominated former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to the board of an international aid program that seeks to encourage democracy and openness in poor countries.
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On the heels of the Romney announcement of support, the Republican front-runner is set to receive the embrace of the elder Bush.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush on Saturday  touted his plan to boost aid for high school students amid  criticism from his Democratic opponent that the president has  undercut his own efforts to fix schools.
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Laura Bush danced and played with HIV-infected orphans on Friday and said it is her wish to see a generation of children free of AIDS.
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The first-born son achieved what the father could not &#151; a second term in the White House &#151; and now, an emboldened President Bush envisions using his tenure to push for far-reaching policy changes on issues from Social Security to taxes.
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President Bush's call for a doubling of the U.S. commitment to battling the global AIDS crisis was met yesterday with broad support uncommon in Washington. International aid organizations, advocacy groups and members of Congress from both parties offered praise for the proposal -- even if some...
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On his trip, the President highlights his success in fighting AIDS -- but avoids hot spots where his legacy is more vexed
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 -- Five years after President Bush vowed to "turn the tide against AIDS" in Africa, he is traveling across a continent where the government's $15 billion investment has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and eased the sense of certain doom once experienced by...
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President Bush on Monday tapped two former presidents &#151; his father, President George H.W. Bush, and his predecessor, President Clinton &#151; to lead a nationwide, private fund-raising campaign to help victims of the Asian tsunamis.