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5 Reasons Global Health Programs Should 'Be Spared The Chopping Block'
"President Obama and his GOP challenger Mitt Romney have both prioritized deficit reduction, which, of course, is a worthy goal," former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), chair of the non-profit Hope Through Healing Hands, writes in an opinion piece in The Week. "[M]any surveys put global health at the top of the list of things to slash. That's a mistake," he continues and lists five reasons why global health programs "ought to be spared the chopping block."
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