WASHINGTON - 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.
HIV/AIDS
Then-US Senator Jesse Helms speaks during a luncheon at the International Christian Conference On HIV/AIDS in 2002. Helms, an iconic US conservative lawmaker known for ...