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Bush’s Effort To Combat AIDS In Africa Saved 1.1 Million Lives
A recently released study from Stanford University says that former President Bush’s PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) program in Africa saved more than 1.1 million lives, and cut the mortality rate of the disease by 10 percent.
PEPFAR is the most sweeping attempt at combating AIDS in Africa in human history. President Bush spent more money on fighting AIDS in Africa than any human being on earth.
Much to the chagrin of liberals, it wasn’t left-wing rock bands or benefit concerts that are saving the people of Africa, but their arch nemesis George W. Bush.
Someone should let Kanye West know that George Bush apparently does care about black people.
-Chris Jones
Saddam’s Prison Diaries Show He Was Afraid Of Catching AIDS
The Pentagon has released excerpts of Saddam Hussein’s diary that he wrote in daily while being held in an American detention facility in Iraq.
According to his writings, Saddam feared catching AIDS when he discovered that his U.S. military guards sometimes used his clothes line to dry their clothes.
When Saddam found out his U.S. military guards were also using his laundry line to dry clothes, he wrote that he demanded they stop, according to the excerpts.
“I explained to them that they are young and they could have young people’s diseases,” Saddam wrote. “My main concern was to not catch a venereal disease, an HIV disease, in this place.” He said some soldiers ignored his request.
Obviously, Saddam was about 20 years behind in common knowledge about AIDS since he thought it could be transmitted via clothes line.
Also, it’s not like we were gonna let him live long enough to catch anything anyway.
Bob Geldof Says Bush Has Done More For Africa Than Any President
From The Washington Times:
Mr. Geldof praised Mr. Bush for his work in delivering billions to fight disease and poverty in Africa, and blasted the U.S. press for ignoring the achievement.
Mr. Bush, said Mr. Geldof, “has done more than any other president so far.”
“This is the triumph of American policy really,” he said. “It was probably unexpected of the man. It was expected of the nation, but not of the man, but both rose to the occasion.”“What’s in it for [Mr. Bush]? Absolutely nothing,” Mr. Geldof said.
Mr. Geldof said that the president has failed “to articulate this to Americans” but said he is also “pissed off” at the press for their failure to report on this good news story.
“You guys didn’t pay attention,” Geldof said to a group of reporters from all the major newspapers.
I’m glad to see someone like Geldof actually has the guts to tell the truth. You would NEVER read about Bush’s Africa success in the NY Times or anywhere else in the American media.
It’s become a fashionable to hate President Bush and it’s disgusting. The media refuses to acknowledge anything positive that Bush does, and instead chooses to harp on scandals that they themselves create.
It’s not surprising that President Bush has such low approval ratings considering the kind of coverage he gets. How can the public have anything other than a negative perception of the Bush Administration when all they get is a constant drumbeat of lies and distortions from a corrupt media?
-Chris Jones
U.N. To Cut Estimate Of AIDS Epidemic
The United Nations’ top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade.
Revised figures in the latest UN Aids annual report released on Monday cut an estimate for total infections to 32.7 million from the 39.5 million cases given in the agency’s 2006 report.
The UN report stated that the number of people in India estimated to be living with HIV/Aids has been more than halved to 2.5 million due to better statistics and evidence gathering.
In Asia, there are now 4.9 million cases, up from 440,000 last year. Indonesia has the fastest growing HIV prevalence on the continent, while the number of infections in Vietnam has more than doubled between 2000 and 2005.
Having millions fewer people with a lethal contagious disease is good news. Some researchers, however, contend that persistent overestimates in the widely quoted U.N. reports have long skewed funding decisions and obscured potential lessons about how to slow the spread of HIV. Critics have also said that U.N. officials overstated the extent of the epidemic to help gather political and financial support for combating AIDS.
Unprotected sex is the main factor behind the spread of the virus, with contaminated drug injecting equipment also playing a key role, the report said.
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