Why is George Bush the Only World Leader Confronting AIDS in Africa?

Question

The man is a saint.

"The Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy," Bob Geldof

Former president Bill Clinton had not helped Africa much, despite his high-profile visits and apparent empathy with the downtrodden, the organiser of Live Aid, claimed. "Clinton was a good guy, but he did f*ck all."

"They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he (Bush)
has actually done more than any American president for Africa. But it’s empirically so."

The Bush haters are really making fools of themselves today.
name another leader of another country who has given more money to Africa.
$30 Billion

"Here's some good news -- [looks at President Bush] -- for you, Mr. President. After 9-11 we were told America would have no time for the World's poor. We were told America would be taken up with its own problems of safety. And it's true these are dangerous times, but America has not drawn the blinds and double-locked the doors. In fact, you have doubled aid to Africa. You have tripled funding for global health. And Mr. President, your emergency plan for AIDS relief and support of the Global Fund -- you and Congress -- have put 700,000 people onto life-saving anti-retroviral drugs and provided 8 million bed nets to protect children from malaria."
Bono

Answer 1

People beat him up for everything, but when he does something good, no one says a word. He can't get a break.

Answer 2

The US pharmaceutical manufacturing industry is one of the top 10 industry contributors to federal US political campaigns. Prescription drugs cost twice as much in the US as in other developed countries, and the industry makes three times the profit of other industries.

The question is, will the money proposed for the AIDS relief program benefit Africa by being used to buy the drugs from the cheapest source - or, as is more likely, will the money be used to subsidise production by the American pharmaceutical manufacturers, to protect their markets in developing countries?

Bush could do far more to minimise the AIDS epidemic now sweeping the Third World by reversing the infamous "global gag rule", which promotes needless deaths by discouraging safe sex, and unwanted pregnancies, which lead to unsafe abortions.

The International Planned Parenthood Federation calls the policy "Bush's secret war" and says his actions "are a testament to the Bush Administration's war against women and his overall contempt for their fundamental civil and human rights".

Answer 3

Unfortunately I don't think the money is going to go far to solve the problem. My roommate was in the Peace Core in Malawi and almost everyone had extremely good knowledge on the causes and effects of aids.

To truly fight aids we need to change cultural attitudes which isn't so easy to do.

Answer 4

boy are you off-line...ever hear of bill gates? he has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to fight aids in africa. sorry to burst your bubble...

ZDNet Tags: Africa, Health care, Microsoft
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has donated $900,000 to set up a training facility for health professionals working with AIDS in Africa's Great Lakes region.

On a low-profile visit to Rwanda on Sunday and Monday, Gates offered the funds to set up the Center for Training and Operation Research to serve five nations: Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"Such support from well-wishers will go a long way in helping developing countries achieve much in the war against the scourge," Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, executive secretary of Rwanda's National Aids Commission, said late Wednesday.

Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region hardest-hit by AIDS, with about 25 million people infected. Binagwaho told Reuters that 3 percent of Rwanda's 8 million people had HIV.

The ultra-modern facility will be run from Kigali by international experts under the coordination of Rwanda's AIDS Treatment and Research Center, the official added.

Gates, the world's wealthiest man and a major international philanthropist, was in Africa on a holiday with his wife Melinda and children, Rwandan officials said.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced on Wednesday grants worth $287 million to create an international network of 16 labs to try new approaches for making a vaccine against AIDS.

Answer 5

Because he needs to desperately divert attention from the disaster he has created in Iraq. If you had a braincell in your head would understand that this is the game of politics and wouldn't be asking this stupid question. Bono and Geldof were only saying in an interview the other day on CNN I think that this meeting with Putin was just a distraction to take the attention away from Africa. Politics is one big distraction they go from one issue to the next with hardly ever resolving anything.

Answer 6

Clinton spread Aids.

Answer 7

are you kidding me. other world leaders have been doing so for years but they just do not get as much publisity. tony blair as well. by the way if the man is such a saint why are these people still dropping like flies all over the world???? the money never makes it to these people

Answer 8

Oh please! All the leaders on earth, including the United Nations, is dealing with this pandemic. Just exactly do you think that he, personally, is doing over there? Check out facts before you make silly statements like that. Our own citizens can't afford medication, what makes you think that GWB is going to actually "DO" anything but make campaign noise?

Answer 9

Because george w. bush is HIV positive! He is as queer as a three dollar bill!

Answer 10

Absolutely right. He has a "Gorgeous George" halo around his rectum and he confronts it both ways..