PEPFAR: The anti-AIDS program that changed the world now under threat

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For 20 years, President George W. Bush’s emergency AIDS relief plan for Africa has saved millions of lives. Now, a small group in Congress wants to kill the plan.

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0:50.8	One of the most successful public health programs in history is Under Threat.
0:55.4	The program started 20 years ago and it saved millions of lives.
0:59.6	It's called PEPFAR, short for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
1:05.2	In his State of the Union address in 2003, then President George W. Bush explained why
1:10.4	help was needed to stem the devastation from HIV and AIDS.
1:15.4	Today on the continent of Africa, nearly 30 million people have the AIDS virus, including
1:21.6	three million children under the age of 15.
1:26.6	Their whole country's in Africa were more than one-third of the adult population carries
1:30.4	the infection.
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