Bush credited with saving 1.1 million lives

Yeah, you probably won’t read this anywhere else, but two Stanford researchers have credited the former president’s programs to fight AIDS in Africa with reducing by 10% the mortality rate, according to Stephen Dinan in the Washington Times;

The study by two Stanford University doctors showed the treatment part of PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which involves making drug treatment available to about 2 million people, has shown solid success while the prevention efforts under the program have not yet produced the same concrete results.

“It has averted deaths – a lot of deaths – with about a 10 percent reduction compared with neighboring African countries,” said Dr. Eran Bendavid, a fellow in infectious disease and in health policy and research at Stanford who led the study. “However, we could not see a change in prevalence rates that was associated with PEPFAR.”

For each life saved, $2,700 was spent on treatment, according to the study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

You’d think a successful government program would make the news since a successful government program is fairly rare. But, nuthin’, no where except in the WashTimes.

Ace of Spades‘ DrewM reports that Bush was cheered yesterday in Texas for unrelated activities.

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