To: bentway who wrote (860871 ) 5/29/2015 11:43:11 PM From: i-node Read Replies (1) | Respond to That sounds like totally partisan, Bush worshipper ASSTALK to me. How about a credible LINK that supports that statement? I'm actually here to tell you that America now has 5 million people being kept alive by these drugs. That's something that everyone should know."19th International AIDS Conference here in Washington. They look like any other group of conventioneers, laden with satchels and garlanded with name tags. But some of these men and women would be dead if not for Bush’s foresight and compassion.PEPFAR — deserves accolades. It is a reminder that the United States can still be both great and good. When the Bush administration inaugurated the program in 2003, fewer than 50,000 HIV-infected people on the African continent were receiving the antiretroviral drugs that keep the virus in check and halt the progression toward full-blown AIDS. By the time Bush left office, the number had increased to nearly 2 million. Today, the United States is directly supporting antiretroviral treatment for more than 4 million men, women and children worldwide, primarily in Africa."
