Deal reached on global AIDS plan health club

House leaders from both parties and the White House reached a deal Wednesday on a bill that would more than triple funding for the administration's global AIDS program health club.

In a compromise reached late Tuesday health club, the bill loosens the requirement for abstinence messages, health club a source of constant criticism of the program since it was unveiled by President Bush in 2003.

The bill authorizes $50 billion over five years to prevent infection, treat people ill from the human immunodeficiency virus and care for children orphaned by the epidemic.