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re. Deborah Birx

https://www.cabsa.org.za/content/pepfar-pumps-us-210-million-africa-14012015

PEPFAR Pumps US$ 210 Million in Africa. 14/01/2015
Published at SafAIDS
13 January 2015

LUSAKA, 13 January 2015 (Times of Zambia) - The United States through its President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has set aside US $210 million for the Accelerated Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT) for children living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Speaking from Washington D.C. via a telephone conference call with African journalists from the Sub-Saharan Region, PEPFAR Ambassador Deborah Birx said an additional 300,000 children will be helped over the next two years through that investment.

Ambassador Birx said PEPFAR has created expanded partnerships with the private sector for the innovation of new ideas to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

(snip)

This is a partnership between PEPFAR, the Nike Foundation, and the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation, 210 million dollars specifically targeted, and these are new funds, specifically targeted to reduce new infections among adolescent girls and young women.

https://www.independent.co.uk/melinda-gates-donald-trump-budget-proposal-bill-misguided-global-health-development-foundation-a8209086.html

Melinda Gates: Trump’s proposed budget is ‘misguided’ when it comes to global health and development

13 February 2018

Melinda Gates has said US President Donald Trump’s budget proposal is a “misguided approach to global health and development.”

The philanthropist and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said the cuts to international health programmes proposed in the new defence-focused budget would leave the US open to pandemics.

(snip)

Mr Sachs pointed to the “enormous success” of the Presidential Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) begun during former President George W Bush’s administration as an example that criticism of the Trump administration’s budget is not about domestic politics of “left vs. right.”

PEPFAR makes up two-thirds of the US global health budget and has continued to get funding because it is effective in containing new infection rates on the African continent.

https://2009-2017.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/04/225218.htm

Remarks at Swearing-in Ceremony for Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator of the USG Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Deborah Birx

Remarks
John Kerry
Secretary of State
Benjamin Franklin Room
Washington, DC
April 25, 2014

SECRETARY KERRY: ...
I am really honored to be here, as all of you are. And I’m very privileged to come here and meet Deborah’s personal cheering corps. (Laughter.) A lot of energy here, a lot of enthusiasm. (Cheers and applause.) It’s really great to see and great to feel and great to know, because it’s a ratification of the choice that President Obama and I have made. I couldn’t be more thrilled than to swear in one of our most committed champions in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Dr. Deborah Birx. (Applause.)

And I’m particularly pleased to welcome her very modest family that’s here – (laughter) – enormous. We’re really happy to welcome Dr. Donald and Adele Birx, her parents, her brother Donald, and her daughters, Danielle and Devynn.

(snip)

I won’t dwell too long on the fact that this Navy man had to go to the U.S. Army to find somebody to – (laughter) – it’s just a mark of inter-service cooperation, folks. (Laughter.) But I looked at Debbi’s CV, and I knew almost instantly, before I even met her. And I had other recommendations, including a daughter who is involved in global health who knew of her reputation and thought the world of her.

But I remember looking through her resume as I sat in my office, before I had the privilege of having a talk with her about taking on this job, and I saw that there was a couple of interesting parallels. In 1985, Debbi started as Assistant Chief of the Hospital Immunology Service at Walter Reed Medical Center. And I thought, (inaudible)1985, that was when I started in the United States Senate. And at that time, I thought about what AIDS meant – the word AIDS meant in 1985. Back then, it was a death sentence, and it was back during the time when many politicians weren’t even comfortable talking about it.

In the 1990s, Debbi helped develop the Thai vaccine trial, which was the first clinical HIV/AIDS research to show real potential. And by the 1990s, we in Congress had graduated from a fear and a paralysis to some degree and even a politicization to a certain degree. We were able then to put AIDS into a sentence: “AIDS in Africa.” I see my old friend Jim Jones standing out here in front, who was my – one of my key aides, along with Nancy Stetson, who helped us write the earliest AIDS legislation. And when said – AIDS in Africa – it was still a looming death sentence for a continent at that time. And thank God people like Debbi and Jim and Nancy and a lot of other people decided that was simply unacceptable.

In 1998, Debbi was serving as the director of our military’s HIV Research Program at Walter Reed. And that same year, Bill Frist and I joined together on a comprehensive HIV/AIDS bill that actually laid the foundation for what become PEPFAR.

And in 2007, Debbi was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Global HIV/AIDS. And 2007 happened also to be the year that my wife and I, Teresa and I, traveled to South Africa and went to the Umgeni School in Durban, South Africa. And I saw firsthand there the courage of many single mothers who were scratching out subsistence in mud houses. And I met young kids, in their early teens, who had become, because of the death rate, caretakers for a family, and in many cases caretakers for an older aunt or grandmother or somebody else who had contracted AIDS. And so many husbands were lost to this horrific disease.

So Debbi and I have actually traveled many of the same roads together in this fight, along with Eric and others. And I am very, very proud that now we will be fighting side by side in her new role as our Global AIDS Coordinator.

In so many ways, Debbi embodies the best of what it means to be a pioneer, to be a practitioner, and a public servant all rolled into one. She’s a pioneer as the first woman and the first veteran to take this post on. (Applause and cheers.) But I think all of you know she’s also the gold standard for put-your-head-down, get-it-done – (laughter) – public service. And I’ve heard it’s pretty common to get a call from Debbi on Monday about a problem in a Sub-Saharan African nation, and then you get an email from her on Tuesday, and she’s already flown out there and she’s on the ground and working. (Laughter.)

The apple actually doesn’t fall very far from the tree when it comes to that, folks. Her parents got a call the day that she was going to be sworn in – the day before she was going to sworn in at her private swearing-in, so she was official and could go out and do stuff, so she then had time to invite all of you to come. (Laughter.) And so they got the word at their home in Mechanicsville, Pennsylvania, and they were on the road by 4 a.m. (Laughter.) And wobbly, tired, and unbowed, they arrived here. They drove all night. They made it to D.C. in time for the swearing-in.

https://cumberlink.com/obituaries-for/article_345e553b-3db9-5617-8575-3a8e0441bfbe.html

Apr 9, 2000

Daniel L. Birx, 45, and Karen A. Birx, 42, both of Oakley, Calif., died Monday, March 27, 2000, as the result of a small aircraft accident in Taft, Calif.

Born July 16, 1954, in Maryland, Daniel Birx was a son of Donald and Adele Sparks Birx of Mechanicsburg, who survive him.

Karen Birx was born July 18, 1957, in California, daughter of Adelbert and Sonja Swanson Zimmerman of Brentwood, Calif., who survive her.

Mr. Birx was a research scientist and West Coast representative for Systems Research Laboratories of Cambridge, Mass. He received a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, a master’s degree in physics from Miami University of Ohio and a PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

He was also an accomplished pilot, and had built his own airplane, flying for 30 years.

Both attended Golden Hills Community Church in Brentwood, Calif.

In addition to his parents, Mr. Birx is survived by a brother, Dr. Donald L. Birx of Los Cruces, N.M.; a sister, Dr. Deborah Birx of Potomac, Md.; and several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, Mrs. Birx is survived by a brother, Tom Zimmerman of Lake Tahoe, Calif.; a sister, Terry Stewart of Livermore, Calif.; and several nieces and nephews.

https://patents.justia.com/inventor/daniel-l-birx

Patents by Inventor Daniel L. Birx

Good morning Trump Family Train.

..... by the way.

I've noticed over the past years it's really pretty hard to find carrot juice sold anywhere.

Crazy ........

My wife and I used to drink it every day for years ...... but not so much these days.

This would seem to be the right time to be drinking it.

********

..... be well.

I forgot all about carrot juice. You take care, too.

America Prayer Vigil

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3824701/posts

Today is a day of prayer declared by our president. We his people are to HUMBLE yourselves and pray!

Two or more AMEN to all your prayers.

Thanks Maggie. Lots of material there.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3824698/posts

An attack at White House ?

Good morning, ma. Thanks. Praying. Amen.

How can anyone with a fever over 100 degrees responsibly go anywhere these days,much less be a reporter trying to go to the White House briefing. Maybe this is fake news. Too bad that we can’t trust much of anything these days

It sounds like you attended a highly academically rated high school. Other than some college prep private schools, magnet public schools with entrance exams or a few public schools drawing only from a very affluent community, few schools had every student take physics and calculus.

Back then many public high schools did not even require algebra 1 as a graduation requirement. Course requirements have strengthened over the years, even as course content for many of them has weakened.

Great informative post!! Thanks.

I’d forgotten about carrot juice. Interesting ..wonder how they stopped making it?

Hi there, MS. B!

Missed you last night—hope you’re pain has lessened.

We have an Elderberry shop in our downtown...doing big business it seems. Are you using it Jessi for anything? I think I’ll check it out. I had planned to not go out for a couple of weeks or month even. I’ll see.

Good morning,lysie!

Great breakfast for the National Day of Prayer!

I am thankful for the BACON!

Thank you!

you’re = your.

I will join President Trump at 11. I input
http://freechapel.org/live
and found the website. It has a countdown clock to its 9am service. There will probably be another for the 11 am service.

Good morning, lysie.

Beautiful breakfast, thank you.

How did your BBQ go?