AIDS and the State of the Union

Saturday, February 4. 2006

President Bush alluded to AIDS six times in Tuesday's State of the Union address. While many commentators were disappointed by his limited discussion of global AIDS, a half dozen uses of the word "AIDS" does mark improvement from recent years:

2006: 6
2005: 1
2004: 0
2003: 11
2002: 0

This list also suggests that 2003, and the launch of PEPFAR, was unfortunately an anomaly with respect to White House attention and not the start of increased, steady attention as many had hoped.

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