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This year, Congress will consider reauthorization of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This Policy Watch provides fast facts about the program and top issues related to its authorization and funding.

The White House seems to understand that the favorite solution ofWestern public health elites -- a "condom airlift" for thecontinent -- would be a medical and moral disaster. It wasprecisely this approach that was roundly rejected by UgandanPresident Yoweri Museveni. Critics of the Administration's AIDSpolicy for Africa should meditate long and hard on thatalternative.

Earlier this year, the Bush Administration persuaded Congress to authorize $15 billion over the next five years to fight the AIDS pandemic in Africa and the Caribbean.

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The United States has a decidedly mixed record when it comes to global health crises, writes Thomas Balcerski. From the tragic rollout of the polio vaccine in the 1950s to its denial of the scourge of AIDS to its disastrous response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the US has not always prioritized the health of its own citizens, to say nothing of the rest of the world.