President George W. Bush could not have foreseen how successful the outcome would be when he told aides in 2002 he wanted a "game changer" to fight the scourge of HIV/AIDS in Africa and elsewhere. But that is what he accomplished with the President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which he launched in 2003. To date, it is credited with having saved more than 25 million lives.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Aug. 3 The Washington Post on a threat to PEPFAR President George W. Bush could not have foreseen how successful the outcome would be when he told aides in 2002 he wanted a “game changer” to fight the scourge of HIV/AIDS in Africa and elsewhere.
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