Senate reaches an agreement on global AIDS bill

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In this image released by Music World MusicColumbia singer Kelly Rowland is tested for the HIV at Kenyatta Hospital in Nairobi on June 19 2008. Rowland is the 2008 Ambassador for MTVs Staying Alive Foundation which works to empower young people to ...
In this image released by Music World Music/Columbia, singer Kelly Rowland is tested for the HIV at Kenyatta Hospital in Nairobi on June 19, 2008. Rowland is the 2008 Ambassador for MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation which works to empower young people to protect them against AIDS and HIV. (AP Photo/Music World Music/Columbia)

(AP) -- Senate negotiators said Wednesday they had reached a tentative agreement on a key obstacle to one of the most ambitious federal health initiatives ever, a $50 billion act to combat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa and other countries hard-hit by those diseases.


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