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Five Years Later: Judging Bush's AIDS Initiative
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NACLA Report on the Americas
- Article date:
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July 1, 2008
- Author:
- Smallman, Shawn
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In January 2003, President George W. Bush announced his plan to ask Congress for $15 billion to fight the global AIDS pandemic. In contrasttothe 1980s and 1990s-when many U.S. conservatives, most notoriously Ronald Reagan, studiously avoided referring to HIV-after the millennium, conservative leaders seized upon HIV, particularly its appalling impact in Africa, as a key issue. Called the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Bush's initiative sped through Congress and is now five years old. Thanks to widespread, bipartisan support in 2008, PEPFAR will likely be again funded with $30 billion for the next five years.
The program focuses funds on 15 countries (12 African ...