Today the Senate Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations followed the House’s example by adopting the President’s fiscal year 2014 funding request for global HIV/AIDS programs, allocating $4.02 billion for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and $1.65 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.  The bill also provides $330 million for USAID’s HIV/AIDS programs, in line with the President’s request.

ACTION has produced a short film to demonstrate the effectiveness of GeneXpert testing in combatting the spread of tuberculosis in resource-limited settings.