Bush Launches $15 Billion Worldwide Assault on HIV/AIDS
Pandemic
December 2003
In his 2003 State
of the Union Address, President Bush announced the
largest
commitment
in history for an international public health initiative involving a specific
disease: the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
The plan emphasizes treatment in
14 AIDS-stricken nations, and continues and expands ongoing aggressive HIV/AIDS
prevention, care, and support programs.
Nearly $10 billion in new U.S. resources
will be directed over the next five years to: Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire,
Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa,
Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
The plan will also provide additional money for
the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The emergency plan
includes the purchase of low-cost, antretroviral
medication and other lifesaving drugs.
It also calls for setting up a broad network to deliver drugs to remote
points in Africa.
In July 2003, Bush named Randall
Tobias, as State Department Global
AIDS Coordinator. Tobias is the former chief executive officer of Eli
Lilly.
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