WASHINGTON — Science now has the tools to slash the spread of HIV even without a vaccine — and the United States is donating an extra $150 million to help poor countries put them in place, the Obama administration told the world’s largest AIDS conference Monday.
‘‘We want to get to the end of AIDS,’’ declared the top US HIV researcher, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health.
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no mention of the great work Bush did in this area
******************The President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR/Emergency Plan) was a commitment of $15 BILLION over five years (2003–2008) from United States President GEORGE W.BUSH to fight the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The program initially aimed to provide antiretroviral treatment (ART) to 2 million HIV-infected people in resource-limited settings, to prevent 7 million new infections, and to support care for 10 million people (the "2–7–10 goals") by 2010. PEPFAR increased the number of Africans receiving ART from 50,000 at the start of the initiative in 2004 to at least 1.2 million in early 2008.[1][2] PEPFAR has been called the largest health initiative ever initiated by one country to address a disease. The budget presented by President Bush for the fiscal year 2008 included a request for $5.4 billion for PEPFAR.[3] The massive funding increases have made anti-retrovirals widely available, saving millions of lives.[4][5
You are right on that one, and it is indeed sad no mention was made of that. Michael Gerson had a moving Opinion column in the Washington Post on Sunday that discussed the topic.