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On January 28, 2003, in his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush proposed the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR, and asked Congress for $15 billion over five years to fight HIV/AIDS. Congress passed the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, known as the Leadership Act, and Bush signed it into law on May 27, 2003. It authorized $15 billion for fiscal years 2004 through 2008, a large increase in US spending on HIV, and created the new position of US Global AIDS Coordinator to lead the effort. The act also governed US…
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On January 28, 2003, in his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush proposed the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR, and asked Congress for $15 billion over five years to fight HIV/AIDS. Congress passed the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, known as the Leadership Act, and Bush signed it into law on May 27, 2003. It authorized $15 billion for fiscal years 2004 through 2008, a large increase in US spending on HIV, and created the new position of US Global AIDS Coordinator to lead the effort.…
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PEPFAR
On January 28, 2003, in his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush proposed the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR, and asked Congress for $15 billion over five years to fight HIV/AIDS. Congress passed the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, known as the Leadership Act, and Bush signed it into law on May 27, 2003. It authorized $15 billion for fiscal years 2004 through 2008, a large increase in US spending on HIV, and created the new position of US Global AIDS Coordinator to lead the effort. The act also governed US participation in the Global Fund. Anthony Fauci, described in Dr. Fauci, was one of the program's leading architects.
PEPFAR worked mainly in sub Saharan Africa, paying for HIV prevention, treatment and care. Congress renewed it several times. On July 24, 2008, it passed the Lantos Hyde Act, which authorized $48 billion for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. It was…