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July 22, 2010
Charity begins at home
Desmond Tutu: "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. ... Since 2004, the AIDS-related mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa has dropped 18 percent."
Under the Bush administration, about 400,000 more African patients received treatment every year. President Obama’s Pepfar 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. Doctors would have to decide which of the 22 million Africans afflicted with H.I.V. should receive treatment and which should not.
Paging Malik and George Obama. Malik and George Obama to the my-brother's-keeper phone, please.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 22, 2010 07:23 AM
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