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Hog Trough Faith & Bush's $15B AIDS Fund

Michael Abramowitz / The Washington Post:
Sporting a small red ribbon on his lapel to mark World AIDS Day, President Bush spent close to an hour in the music room of a small church Friday listening to the tales of religious groups on the front lines of the battle to prevent and treat what is still the world's most devastating killer. Rebecca Mink, a Christian missionary, related for the president how she and her husband set up a home in Namibia for 55 children orphaned by AIDS. Chris Dominick, a real estate agent and member of McLean Bible Church, described his plans to head to Zambia this weekend on a church mission to work with children who have AIDS. A regal-looking Zambian woman known as "Auntie Bridget" noted that she is both a beneficiary and an implementer of the president's ambitious anti-AIDS initiative. Known as the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the program is devoting about $15 billion over five years.

Posted by Editor at December 3, 2007 01:12 AM