re: #41 Mattand

Anything’s possible, but it that was a major motivating factor, I would imagine it have surfaced by now.

I’m desperately trying to hold on to the idea that a Republican President did it for humanitarian reasons.

Well, I do think Bush himself did have humanitarian reasons, however…

Some critics of PEPFAR feel that American political and social groups with moral rather than public health agendas are behind several requirements of PEPFAR, pointing to the mandates that one-third of prevention spending in 2006-2008 be directed towards abstinence-until-marriage programs and that all funded organizations sign an anti-prostitution pledge.

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