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...incoming U.S. leader. But one exception is the case of AIDS in Africa, where most analysts agree the Bush legacy will be almost wholly benign. Since 2003, the U.S. government has spent $15 billion on care and treatment for AIDS under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The program has helped 1.4 million people in 15 countries, most of them in Africa, the continent with the highest HIV/AIDS infection...
...promoted. Some of Bush's new, unilateral foreign aid programs have drained funds from older, multilateral ones. "He cuts certain programs to fund others," says Senate aide Rieser. "He just cares about his own initiatives." While proposing to boost funding this year for his overseas disease-fighting program, PEPFAR, for example, Bush suggested cutting funding for the U.N.'s Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria from $750 million to $300 million...
...part of the national formularies of developing countries. The Clinton Foundation will receive $35 million from the European international drug-buying facility UNITAID to purchase the lower-priced drugs from manufacturers in the next year, and two of the largest drug purchasers for the developing world - the U.S.'s PEPFAR program and the Global Fund - will follow suit. And merely funneling drugs to the youngest patients won't stem the growing tide of children infected with HIV - the most common source of new infections among children now is through mother-to-child transmission at birth. Without proper prenatal prevention programs...
...their HIV-positive mothers who pass along the virus during birth. With their first breath, these children are born fighting for their lives. And while ever more life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are moving into places like Africa, thanks to the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund, there just aren't enough doctors in these regions familiar with treating kids to use these drugs properly...
...occasion to announce a new public-private pediatric AIDS treatment initiative that will channel more contributions from the United States, international organizations and pharmaceutical companies to help parents obtain and use simpler and safer medicines for children. According to the administration, the President?s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has provided $238.7 million to South Africa in the past two years, and Bush?s 2006 budget includes an additional $221.5 million. "The need is great, but the goodwill of the world is greater," the First Lady said. "May God bless mothers everywhere...