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Obama looks to Bush’s worldwide strategy on AIDS (DONNA BRYSON, 07/13/2010, AP)

The national strategy for combatting HIV and AIDS the Obama administration released Tuesday credits the Bush-era international campaign against AIDS for setting clear targets and ensuring a variety of agencies and groups worked together smoothly to achieve them.

George W. Bush launched the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR in 2003 in 15 countries, 12 of them African, that bear most of the world’s AIDS burden. It has helped to treat more than 2 million Africans and supported 10 million more.

“The people here are so incredibly grateful for the impact it has had,” said Kate Bistline, an official with Right to Care, a South African AIDS group that receives PEPFAR funds.