Tuesday, April 22, 2008
President Bush - Quietly helping Africa; big time!
Obviously, there's more to President Bush than the Iraq war. Based on my reading, he measures favorably on many issues that get no publicity. This is one of them.
Hopefully, history will depict President Bush honestly, although, my lack of trust and respect for most media types, makes me doubtful...
Hopefully, history will depict President Bush honestly, although, my lack of trust and respect for most media types, makes me doubtful...
At Time.com, Bob Geldof discusses President Bush:
"It is some story. And I have always wondered why it was never told properly to the American people, who were paying for it. It was, for example, Bush who initiated the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with cross-party support led by Senators John Kerry and Bill Frist. In 2003, only 50,000 Africans were on HIV antiretroviral drugs — and they had to pay for their own medicine. Today, 1.3 million are receiving medicines free of charge. The U.S. also contributes one-third of the money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — which treats another 1.5 million. It contributes 50% of all food aid (though some critics find the mechanism of contribution controversial). On a seven-day trip through Africa, Bush announced a fantastic new $350 million fund for other neglected tropical diseases that can be easily eradicated; a program to distribute 5.2 million mosquito nets to Tanzanian kids; and contracts worth around $1.2 billion in Tanzania and Ghana from the Millennium Challenge Account, another initiative of the Bush Administration.
So why doesn't America know about this?"
