Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

BUSH CALLS FOR FULL $15 BILLION FOR AIDS IN AFRICA
Reuters ^ | Sat July 12, 2003 10:08 AM ET | By Patricia Wilson

Posted on 07/12/2003 10:56:40 AM PDT by Uncle Bill

Bush Calls for Full $15 Billion for AIDS in Africa

Reuters
By Patricia Wilson
July 12, 2003 10:08 AM ET

President Bush pledged on Saturday to help Africa in its "courageous fight" against AIDS and called on the U.S. Congress to fully fund his $15 billion plan to combat the disease.

At the last stop on his five-day, five-nation African tour, Bush also said Washington would stand with its friends and allies to end regional wars. He and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo were expected to discuss the possibility of the United States contributing troops to a mainly African peacekeeping force for Liberia at their meeting on Saturday.

Bush says he will join efforts to enforce a fragile cease-fire to end Liberia's civil war, but is waiting on reports from U.S. military experts in the West African state before deciding whether to send troops.

"Progress in Africa depends on peace and stability, so America is standing with friends and allies to help end regional wars," he said in his weekly radio address.

But Bush focused mainly on AIDS, a disease he said posed "one of the gravest dangers" Africa has ever faced.

He said the need for help was urgent, with almost 30 million people in Africa living with HIV/AIDS including three million children under the age of 15.

"People in Africa are waging a courageous fight against this disease," Bush said. He cited progress in Uganda, which he visited on Friday, saying the country had significantly reduced the rate of infection through a program of abstinence, faithfulness and education.

"Yet current efforts to oppose the disease are simply not equal to the need. ... Africa has the will to fight AIDS but it needs the resources as well."

CONGRESS UNDER PRESSURE

Bush's pledge came after Republicans in the House of Representatives moved bills backing his request for $2 billion next year to fight the global pandemic -- $1 billion less than the amount provided for in a plan he signed in May.

The $2 billion is in line with the White House request for the first year, but White House officials have said Bush would seek greater amounts in subsequent years.

"I urge the entire Congress to fully fund my request for the emergency plan for AIDS relief, so that America can help turn the tide against AIDS in Africa," he said.

In May, Bush signed into law a $15 billion plan to help combat the disease in Africa and the Caribbean, tripling U.S. spending over five years.

The new law, a surprise priority in the president's State of the Union address, means anti-viral treatment will be available to about 2 million HIV-infected people in Africa and the Caribbean who cannot afford the costly cocktail of drugs that can prolong and improve their lives.

It also provides hospice care for the dying, helps some of the 13 million children who have lost one or both parents and intensifies prevention programs through strategies like sexual abstinence, education and promotion of condom use.

The White House said the plan had the potential to prevent 7 million new HIV infections within a decade.

The AIDS initiative focuses principally on Botswana, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, as well as Guyana and Haiti in the Caribbean.


LIMITED GOVERNMENT


President George W. Bush - Biography

SOURCE: http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html

"George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States. Formerly the 46th Governor of the State of Texas, President Bush has earned a reputation as a compassionate conservative who shapes policy based on the principles of limited government,..."


DON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News
KEYWORDS: aids; bush; bushdoctrine; georgewgore; spending; worldsocialism
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-66 next last

1 posted on 07/12/2003 10:56:41 AM PDT by Uncle Bill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Uncle Bill
I don't think this is a bad thing. Why should millions of infants and children suffer? Dubya is a compassionate conservative, IMHO.
2 posted on 07/12/2003 11:01:19 AM PDT by annyokie (Admin Moderator has got it in for me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

See that good looking dude on the left? He's got FAR BETTER THINGS to do than conduct Freepathons! Come on, let's get this thing over with.

3 posted on 07/12/2003 11:01:36 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Bill
Compassion on our nickel.

I wonder if Jr. reminded Africans that AIDS is nearly 100% preventable and that infected African men outta stop raping babies? Naw, it takes less spine to dole out money that isn't his.

4 posted on 07/12/2003 11:14:33 AM PDT by Old Fud
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: annyokie
I agree. This is a crisis. Not one of those lib fabricated ones. It's the right thing to do and make sure the money is used for what it is meant to be used for. Beats wasting money in the fed trash heap.
5 posted on 07/12/2003 11:24:56 AM PDT by arkfreepdom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Bill; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Kathy in Alaska; LindaSOG; Radix; tomkow6; zip; Old Sarge
I will always wonder why a President does not do this for the Vets. So much money for causes and programs and never a thought to our Veterans. THAT is the crime that is much bigger then aids in Africa to me. Just IMO.

I am grateful that Bush is President and thank G-d for that every day. But when oh when is a President going to get to our Veterans.

Wild Thing

6 posted on 07/12/2003 11:25:29 AM PDT by Wild Thing (Support our Troops and the IDF or get out of the way ! The Troops ROCK !!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: annyokie
This is great. After this I am sure he intends to send aid to Eastern Europe to help fight the aids epidemic there too.
7 posted on 07/12/2003 11:26:54 AM PDT by raybbr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Old Fud
Yes, compassionate communism strikes again. It's nearly a daily event with compassionate George.

Vote Bush. Limiting government by spending more than any president in U.S. history, and, doing it faster than any president in U.S. history, and, magically, somehow is smart enough to implement this strategy, by incrementally pushing us towards small limited government and government accountability by grossly expanding the size and scope of government. Though securing our children to the anchor of slavery, it is done in a compassionate way. Vote Bush.

8 posted on 07/12/2003 11:30:35 AM PDT by Uncle Bill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: arkfreepdom; annyokie
Great, why don't you two kick in for my share if it's such a great idea.

I hate pouring my money down a rathole.
9 posted on 07/12/2003 11:31:51 AM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: arkfreepdom
Sorry to have you see this, but:

The World Health Organisation published the following definition of AIDS that was exclusively applicable to developing countries. (3)

Tabel 1: WHO AIDS Definition (1986) for adults in developing countries (3): Major signs: - weight loss 10% - chronic diarrhoea 1 month - fever 1 month (intermittent or constant) Minor signs: - cough for > 1 month - generalized itching - recurrent herpes zoster - oro-pharyngeal candidiasis - chronic progressive and disseminated herpes simplex infection - generalized lymphadenopathy

Exclusion criteria: - cancer - severe malnutrition - other recognized causes

AIDS is defined by the existance of: - at least 2 major signs and - at least 1 minor sign and - in absence of any exclusion criteria or - in a patient with generalized Kaposi's sarcoma or - in a patient with cryptococcal meningitis

Under this, someone is declared to be suffering from AIDS if they have had, for example, diarrhoea for more than a month, pronounced weight loss and coughing or general itching and no other cause can be ascertained with available means. On this definition an HIV test is expressly not necessary, and shortage of funds means that one is still only rarely carried out today. And on the Ugandan health ministry's registration form for people with AIDS the possibility of an HIV test is not even mentioned.

This means that AIDS, the illness that in the words of Professor Luc Montagnier, the man who discovered HIV, "has no typical symptoms", is being diagnosed in developing countries exclusively on the basis of symptoms. (7) The symptoms called for are not exactly rare in a country with twenty years of systematic destruction behind it. So it is not really surprising that, as a result, Uganda has been declared as the country with the highest AIDS rate.

This is from: Here.

Note that no blood test is required by the WHO to diagnose someone as having aids. There is all kinds of info available suggesting that a high percentage of people diagnosed with aids have malaria. It's all about money. How much can they scam from us.

10 posted on 07/12/2003 11:32:35 AM PDT by raybbr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: raybbr
Why is preserving the health of children in any country anathema to so many here? We are the richest nation on the planet, why shouldn't we help the down-trodden?

I'd rather we spent money on those babies than give it to crack whores.
11 posted on 07/12/2003 11:32:51 AM PDT by annyokie (Admin Moderator has got it in for me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: annyokie
Who says we support giving it to crack whores?

I don't support stealing people's money and giving it to anyone. But I especially hate sending it to third world sewers.
12 posted on 07/12/2003 11:42:00 AM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Old Fud
Compassionate Tyranny

Compassionate conservatism is about socialism, not Americanism

No to 'compassionate conservatism'
"Well, we've all witnessed the "compassionate conservative" convention.

It left me feeling empty.

...Marvin Olasky, the former Marxist journalism professor who coined the term. But he and George W. Bush are barking up the wrong tree if they think "compassionate conservatism" is going to rally popular support necessary to effect the real change needed to turn this country around."


Vote Bush. Stealing your money for a better tomorrow

13 posted on 07/12/2003 11:42:27 AM PDT by Uncle Bill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: annyokie
It's unconstitutional. Not that it matters anymore...
14 posted on 07/12/2003 11:45:47 AM PDT by Deport Billary
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: annyokie
I would suggest that millions of suffering children and families are affected by the actions of various family members that acted in an irresponsible manner. How can responsibility be transferred to distant third parties without providing an object lesson in the consequences of their actions? It is a virtue to be compassionate in a beneficial way, but a vice to be stupid in a compassionate way and to encourage further irresponsibility.

I don't know that Bush is a substitute for God, but I do know that following the Godly ten commandments pretty well eliminates the problem of AIDs/HIV. The only exception where innocent victims are affected has been through contaminated blood supplies and health workers exposed in the care of AIDs patients. I certainly have no objection to helping this type of victims. We have enough irresponsibility in this country through our various welfare programs without exporting it to Africa.

15 posted on 07/12/2003 11:45:54 AM PDT by meenie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: annyokie
It's not that it's anethema, it's just a waste of money. The people receiving the money are not going to change their ways just becuase we send some money their way.
16 posted on 07/12/2003 11:48:12 AM PDT by raybbr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: arkfreepdom
You're quite naive if you think this money will make any significant difference.

Tell me, what do you consider to be an acceptable return on a $15 billion dollar investment. Elimination of AIDS in Africa completely? Reduction by 80%? What? Be specific.
17 posted on 07/12/2003 11:49:28 AM PDT by 7DayRepo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Bill
If it's about saving lives, why not push for DDT use in Africa? DDT will save more lives than any AIDS initiative, and it will be much cheaper.
18 posted on 07/12/2003 11:52:46 AM PDT by Senator Pardek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Senator Pardek
My question was rhetorical, of course.
19 posted on 07/12/2003 11:56:52 AM PDT by Senator Pardek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Bill
Oh, very commendable. I see the nation of Nigeria is included. Yes, so very honest there. Always on Hotmail they approach me. Why, many, many times have I been informed by persons using the Central Bank of Nigeria about a person with my surname. Yes, it appears a person and family were killed in a road accident there. All I have to do is to trust them with monies to grease the wheels.

So rich myself, (lies) I do not want an extra tax bracket, so I declined. I am sure all these beautiful US greenbacks will be applied painstakingly. Or will it be Paaarteee time?

20 posted on 07/12/2003 11:57:29 AM PDT by Peter Libra
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-66 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson