He should be carrying with him an AIDS initiative backed with real money.

The AIDS initiatives come during difficult financial and political times for the Koch administration.

For such chutzpah on a global scale, consider President Bush's overseas AIDS initiative.

But some council members have lamented that other causes had taken precedence over the AIDS initiative.

President Bush's $15 billion AIDS initiative was an important step, and it proved surprisingly popular around the United States.

After he announced his AIDS initiative, Mr. Bush was praised as a humanitarian.

University officials called it the largest AIDS initiative outside the National Institutes of Health.

A second AIDS initiative qualified for the ballot in 1988, but the measure failed by a larger margin.

Several AIDS initiatives for this year were cut by the Mayor's budget office, however.

Condoleezza Rice had promised him a historic AIDS initiative.