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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 754315" data-attributes="member: 12952">Re: Obamanation here todayGeorge W. Bush made an impressive commitment to the&nbsp; international fight against AIDS when he formed the President’s&nbsp; Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program. Thanks to these efforts — and similar initiatives, like those&nbsp; spearheaded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria —&nbsp; the number of African patients with access to AIDS drugs jumped tenfold&nbsp; from 2003 to 2008. Since 2004, the AIDS-related mortality rate in&nbsp; sub-Saharan Africa has dropped 18 percent.Yet President Obama added only $366 million to the program this&nbsp; year — well below the $1 billion per year he promised to add when he was&nbsp; on the campaign trail.Under the Bush administration, about 400,000 more African patients&nbsp; received treatment every year. President Obama’s&nbsp; strategy would&nbsp; reduce the number of new patients receiving treatment to 320,000 —&nbsp; resulting in 1.2 million avoidable deaths over the next five&nbsp; years, according to calculations by two Harvard researchers, Rochelle&nbsp; Walensky and Daniel Kuritzkes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 754315, member: 12952"] [b]Re: Obamanation here today[/b] [B]George W. Bush made an impressive commitment to the international fight against AIDS when he formed the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program[/B]. Thanks to these efforts — and similar initiatives, like those spearheaded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — the number of African patients with access to AIDS drugs jumped tenfold from 2003 to 2008. Since 2004, the AIDS-related mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa has dropped 18 percent. [B]Yet President Obama added only $366 million to the program this year — well below the $1 billion per year he promised to add when he was on the campaign trail. [/B]Under the Bush administration, about 400,000 more African patients received treatment every year. President Obama’s strategy would reduce the number of new patients receiving treatment to 320,000 — resulting in 1.2 million avoidable deaths over the next five years, according to calculations by two Harvard researchers, Rochelle Walensky and Daniel Kuritzkes. [/QUOTE]

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