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final document: context. Some might ask for resources to upgrade or build health centers to deliver basic HIV/AIDS or tuberculosis care and prevention programs. Others might want help with such programs plus training for physicians, lab workers, nurses, community health volunteers, and pharmacists. Still others might integrate both models with the provision of complex drug treatment. Every funded model will also include localized monitoring to assure the efficacy of the grant and to help inform the selection of proposals in the future. We will also emphasize technical assistance to those countries and organizations that are unable to satisfy our criteria in their letters of intent, so that over time they might also be able to participate. The Administration is committed to making the fight against the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and other killers a priority, and we ask our friends and partners to join with us in a single, worldwide effort. ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1 April 11, 2001 - Attached below is what is to be the final document: Draft Privileged and Confidential For Official Use Only Infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, are ravaging developing nations, causing 25 percent of all deaths worldwide and eroding recent gains in economic growth, education, and life expectancy. Tuberculosis accounted for 1.7 million deaths last year, while malaria killed more than one million, mostly children in Africa. At the same time, the spread of HIV/AIDS is triggering a crisis in international public health, the full scope of which we are only beginning to recognize. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that 36 million people are now living with HIV or AIDS, 70 percent of them in sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease is now the leading cause of death. Nearly 60 million people have become infected with HIV since the beginning of the epidemic in the 1970's and over 22 million of them have already died from AIDS. The U.S. has been the leader in research and assistance to battle these diseases, and the President's recent proposed budget increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reaffirms