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George Bush is brave: Embarking on a publicized HIV & AIDS safari through Tanzania, Zambia and Ethiopia on World AIDS Day?
Yes, the $15 billion President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) he began in office achieved some dazzling results – ten times more Africans are thought to be on anti-retrovirals now, than when the program began, and the fund helped set an incredibly high bench mark for giving. However, Bush’s HIV & AIDS work is far from being the untarnished legacy of his presidency, as he seems to believe.
In fact, George W’s conservatism cost lives. PEPFAR began with a heavy emphasis on abstinence: an approach based on faith, rather than evidence. In order to receive funding, programs had to stress abstaining from sex, to the detriment of other means of HIV prevention. Uganda was once the golden girl of HIV prevention, for dramatically reducing infection rates from 15 per cent in the early 1990s to 5 per cent in 2001, via a comprehensive, condom-inclusive approach. After an enforced abstinence focus, activists saw HIV rates increase.
Finally George W. Bush gets Hollywood love!!
jt
2012/07/25 23:06:37
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Hollywood is full of liberals? Maybe. But this week is seeing an interesting dynamic: Celebrities praising George W. Bush.
The occasion is the International AIDS conference and the warm words earned by Bush is for his leadership in promoting AIDS relief around the world. Actress Debra Messing is in town this week for the conference and is joining the praise for the 43rd president.
A fwd article: -jt
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Kern 2012/07/25 23:41:21
George Bush is brave: Embarking on a publicized HIV & AIDS safari through Tanzania, Zambia and Ethiopia on World AIDS Day?
Yes, the $15 billion President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) he began in office achieved some dazzling results – ten times more Africans are thought to be on anti-retrovirals now, than when the program began, and the fund helped set an incredibly high bench mark for giving. However, Bush’s HIV & AIDS work is far from being the untarnished legacy of his presidency, as he seems to believe.
In fact, George W’s conservatism cost lives. PEPFAR began with a heavy emphasis on abstinence: an approach based on faith, rather than evidence. In order to receive funding, programs had to stress abstaining from sex, to the detriment of other means of HIV prevention. Uganda was once the golden girl of HIV prevention, for dramatically reducing infection rates from 15 per cent in the early 1990s to 5 per cent in 2001, via a comprehensive, condom-inclusive approach. After an enforced abstinence focus, activists saw HIV rates increase.
Now can a conservative say something nice about Obama policy? Not without excommunication from the party!