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Republican Presidential Candidate Santorum Could Be Beneficial To Global Health Programs If Elected President
In the Republican campaign for the presidential nomination, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), "the most religiously conservative candidate, surprisingly, is the most fervent advocate for U.S. global health diplomacy," Jack Chow, former U.S. ambassador on global HIV/AIDS and former assistant director-general of WHO on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, writes in a Foreign Policy opinion piece. "Santorum has staked out global health as one of his preferred instruments of asserting American power abroad" and "seems determined to lay the groundwork for a global health agenda that is not only far more extensive than his competitors', but would surpass both [George W.] Bush and Barack Obama in advancing U.S. interests abroad through fighting disease," Chow writes.
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