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Bush Reiterates Proposal to Double Aid to Africa

December 14, 2006 3:00 PM

ABC News' Karen Travers Reports: This morning President Bush reiterated his proposal to double the amount of development aid the U.S. sends to Africa in order to fight the conditions that help malaria thrive there.

The President noted that his administration has doubled aid there already since taking office and said he will again by the end of the decade.

“Our development agenda in Africa and beyond is the most ambitious commitment America has made since the Marshall Plan. And once again, our efforts are showing the world what kind of country America is,” Bush said at the first White House summit on malaria.

Last summer, President Bush announced a five-year, $1.2 billion initiative to fight malaria in 15 of the hardest-hit African nations and proposed doubling aid to Africa before 2010. (remarks on June 30, 2005)

Today the President called his administration’s Emergency Plan for AIDS relief “one of the most important initiatives in American history,” and said it has brought life-saving drugs to more than 800,000 people in Africa in five years.

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