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Leading AIDS Groups Turn Up The Heat on '08 Presidential Candidates
Date:11/28/2007

will Sen. Hillary Clinton redouble efforts against global HIV/AIDS?". Voting records and public comments provide the basis for GMHC's comprehensive report and a useful "quick chart" comparing the candidates' AIDS-related public record and positions.

Some of the notable information available on AIDSVote.org and on GMHC.org:

-- The GMHC report documents, for the first time in one place, the stark

differences between Democratic and Republican presidential candidates

on nearly every AIDS issue. For example, seven Democrats have

committed to investing $50 billion to fight HIV/AIDS globally over the

next five years. No Republican candidate has made a similar

commitment. All eight Democratic candidates support comprehensive sex

education, whereas seven of eight Republicans have opposed it. Most of

the Democrats support lifting the ban against HIV-positive foreign

nationals visiting and/or immigrating to the U.S.; most Republican

candidates either support the existing ban or have not come out against

it.

-- The three leading Democratic candidates -- Sen. Barack Obama, former

Sen. John Edwards, and Sen. Hillary Clinton -- have all publicly

supported ending the ban on federal funding for needle exchange, a

scientifically proven intervention to reduce the spread of HIV without

increasing drug use. President George W. Bush and former President

Bill Clinton faced stiff criticism by public health experts for failing

to lift the ban during their terms in office.

-- For the first time, five presidential candidates -- Clinton, Edwards,

Obama, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, and Gov. Bill Richardson -- have committed

to crafting a national AIDS strategy early in their first term if

elected. The creation of a comprehensive outcomes-based national AIDS

strategy with explicit ben
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