"the Obama administration is curtailing its commitment to a program that provides lifesaving drugs for 2.4 million people and that many view as President Bush’s most successful foreign policy legacy"
Yeah, because it sure as hell was not Iraq or Afghanistan.
Of course, Obama needs to have a reason:
"Some countries cut budgets after receiving health aid, study says" by Maria Cheng, Associated Press | April 10, 2010
LONDON — After getting millions of dollars to fight AIDS, some African countries responded by slashing their health budgets, new research says.
For years, the international community has forked over billions in health aid, believing the donations supplemented health budgets in poor countries. It now turns out development money prompted some governments to spend on entirely different things, which cannot be tracked. The research was published yesterday in the medical journal Lancet.
Doesn't seem to be a problem when it is Israel shifting around funds.
And ever notice the Lancet is respected unless they say a million Iraqis are dead?
Specialists analyzed all available data for government spending on health in poor countries and the aid they received. International health aid jumped from about $8 billion in 1995 to almost $19 billion in 2006, with the United States being the biggest donor.
That's it?
We spend WAY MORE on WARS and BANKS!!!!
Most countries in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East doubled their health budgets. But many in Africa — including those with the worst AIDS outbreaks — trimmed their health spending instead. In the Lancet study, for every dollar received from donors, poor countries transferred up to $1.14 originally slated for their health budgets elsewhere. The research was paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Related: Gates' EndGame
Oh, I'm sure all these globalists mean well; that's why the continent (like Haiti) is a wreck.
“We don’t know what countries are doing with their own money once the donor money comes in,’’ said Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and one of the paper’s authors. Murray said health aid saves millions of lives, but governments need to be more transparent about what they’re spending on.
Unless you are the STATE of ISRAEL!
Then it's NO PROBLEM, need more money?
The research raises questions about whether international aid is sometimes detrimental.
Unless, of course.... how INSULTING, 'eh?
Yeah, it is DETRIMENTAL for the STARVING and SICK BLACK MAN but NEEDED for the you-know-who!
Previous studies have found that pricey United Nations health initiatives haven’t paid off and occasionally hurt health systems.
Yeah, that is because the U.N. is POISONING THEM!!
Of course, my AGENDA-PUSHING PAPER will not tell you that!
Specialists estimate about half of international health aid can’t be traced in the budgets of receiving countries.
Going to audit the Fed or Israel anytime soon, or.... ???
--more--"
Anywho, that gives Obama a chance to CHANGE and BACK OFF BUSH'S SIGNATURE PROMISE regarding Africa?
Oh, Mr. Obama, say it isn't so!!!!
"US seeks to rein in AIDS program; Overseas clinic costs have tripled to $7b in 6 years" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | April 11, 2010
WASHINGTON — US officials have asked some AIDS clinics overseas to stop enrolling new patients in a US-sponsored program that provides lifesaving antiretroviral drugs, in a bid to stem the rising costs of one of the most ambitious US assistance programs, according to interviews with doctors and official correspondence.
And HOW MANY BILLIONS are they spending on the MASS-MURDERING WARS?!
And they are talking a MEASLY $7 BILLION here to SAVE AFRICANS?!!!
SHAME! SHAME!
The move, which was prompted by tighter budgets as well as a debate over how limited global health care dollars can be spent most effectively, has sparked fears among AIDS advocates that the Obama administration is curtailing its commitment to a program that provides lifesaving drugs for 2.4 million people and that many view as President Bush’s most successful foreign policy legacy....
It TRULY MAKES YOU WANT to CRY!!!!!
Obama administration officials say they are not capping the number of patients receiving antiretroviral drugs, but they acknowledge that they are seeking to control the ever-rising costs of the program, known as the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which has grown from $2.3 billion in 2004 to nearly $7 billion this year.
That's chump change considering the deficits we are running.
WELCOME to YOUR ObamaCare PLAN that you will be seeing with you NEW HEALTH LAW you are supposed to love so much!
Yup, give him a chance to be human and he does this.
“People are struggling to find resources to honor the commitments we have made,’’ Ambassador Eric Goosby, US global AIDS coordinator, said in an interview. “We’re not at a cap point yet. If it gets worse, we’ll have another discussion.’’
I notice favored corporate interests, banks, Israel, and war-profiteers always get paid.
The effects of the cost-cutting measures are beginning to be felt in parts of Africa. For patients arriving at some front-line AIDS clinics in Africa, the limits have the same effect as a cap, critics say.
“Virtually every day, we have to turn away patients who need treatment, including breast-feeding women,’’ said Dr. Peter Mugyenyi, a prominent AIDS specialist in Uganda....
Ah, that is because the governments are ripping off the health funds, haven't you heard? Better off dying I guess.
Related: Around Africa: Getting After Uganda
Mugyenyi is in many ways a symbol of how much has changed since the program began in 2003 with the goal of getting as close as possible to universal access for the 10 million AIDS patients in the developing world who need the drugs.
The night that Bush announced the massive new program during the 2003 State of the Union address, Mugyenyi was seated next to Laura Bush.
I remember.
My African history professor was excited the next day (and disappointed no one in the class noticed that aspect of the speech).
In the years that followed, his research facility, the Joint Clinical Research Center in Kampala, Uganda, received millions of dollars to test and treat patients. Today, it provides drugs to 32,000 of the 175,400 Ugandans receiving treatment.
In the early years, as US officials struggled to meet the president’s aggressive targets, they celebrated when clinics exceeded their enrollment goals. But last July, Mugyenyi’s facility received a sharp e-mail warning: “USAID have clearly communicated . . . to stop enrolling new patients.’’
Your future ObomberCare, AmeriKa?
In October, other facilities in Uganda received a similar memo from the program, which is commonly known by its acronym, PEPFAR.
“The US government recognizes that in the coming years, the number of patients in need of antiretroviral treatment will increase dramatically,’’ it read. “While the US government is committed to continuing treatment for those individuals already enrolled . . . funding for HIV programs is not expected to increase in the near future. As a result, PEPFAR Uganda cannot continue to support scale up of antiretroviral treatment without a plan from the Government of Uganda on how these patients will be sustained.’’
How much did we spend slaughtering Pakistanis and Afghans today, America?
Goosby said the letter merely asked clinics not to exceed their agreed-upon budgets and he said thousands of new patients continued to be enrolled each month in Uganda in 2009. But he acknowledged that the funds do not meet the need.
Only if you are... you know.
The warnings about taking on too many new patients can be traced to a debate within the administration over the expense of the program.
Some, of course, are just signed off on, no questions asked.
Although viewed as a major success at helping slow the spread of the disease, enrolling millions of new patients who require drugs for the rest of their lives — at a cost of $300 to $2,000 a year each — the program is seen in some quarters as prohibitively expensive.
Still a lot cheaper than Genzyme!
And wouldn't the health corporations be jumping at the pile of government loot?
Some administration officials have questioned whether the program’s growth rates are sustainable. Ezekiel Emanuel, a White House special adviser on health care who is also the brother of President Obama’s chief of staff, argued in an academic paper shortly before his appointment that US funds could save more lives by focusing on cheaper interventions, such as childhood vaccinations and treatments for respiratory illnesses rather than greatly increasing the budget for AIDS drugs.
They just want to get that needle into you; screw caring for the people already sick, huh?
In Obama’s first year, the growth of funding for the AIDS program slowed.
Got wars to pay for and banks to boost, dammit.
Obama campaigned on a pledge to add $1 billion a year, but asked Congress for an increase of only $366 million for 2010 because of the recession.
Oh, yeah, blame it on the Wall Street engineered depression.
I notice the wars, banks, and Israel got all their dough!
Oh, btw, I'm jaded at the broken campaign promises; what would truly surprise me now is if he kept one.
Related: Obama Keeps a Campaign Promise
That's it? That's the one he kept?
That has pushed thousands of people onto waiting lists for the drugs, including children, according to interviews with more than two dozen health care providers across Africa.
I'm getting more disappointed in the guy with each sentence.
Couldn't borrow $7 billion for the sick kids of Africa?
At some clinics in Uganda, opportunities to receive the drugs are so limited that some enrolled patients are sharing their drugs with relatives, which could increase the spread of drug-resistant HIV strains, according to health specialists.
Uganda is on the s*** list because of the gay thing, aren't they?
“Basically, they are telling families, including kids who want to test for HIV, that if you test positive, you are going to have to sit on a waiting list for months and we can’t give you any assurance that you will ever get the drugs you need,’’ said Asia Russell of Health GAP, an AIDS advocacy organization. “That was not the case even a half a year ago.’’
Obama = FAILURE!
Goosby is optimistic that the program will receive more funds in the coming years.
Why? What gives him reason to think that?
Congress authorized $48 billion over five years in 2008, before the financial crisis hit.
Exactly.
Goosby said the administration is committed to nearly doubling the number of patients receiving drugs, to at least 4 million by 2014.
This as they are halting the sick people who need to be treated so that they might die, blah, blah, blah!
And he said Obama will request an additional $15 billion for his own global health initiative aimed at enabling HIV clinics to treat other diseases, such as diabetes, as well as providing HIV capabilities to facilities that don’t currently have them, Goosby said.
Why don't you FUND THIS ONE FIRST?
But
Sigh
he also outlined simultaneous, aggressive measures to cut costs, which included the eventual transfer of responsibility for AIDS treatment to the patients’ own governments; consolidating clinics, rather than opening more; and treating the sickest patients first.
It DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
If you have MORE PEOPLE NEEDING SERVICES the COST WILL NATURALLY RISE!!!
That is why they are saying no more sign-ups.
The number of people qualifying for drugs jumps faster if countries adopt a new World Health Organization standard that stipulates that AIDS patients be given drugs earlier.
Is that what this is all about?
Herding them into the U.N. programs so some drug companies can boost profits?
HIV-infected patients generally become eligible to receive the drugs when their immune system cell count — known as CD4 — drops below 200. But in December, the World Health Organization recommended that patients receive the drugs at a count of 350, as they do in the United States.
Goosby signaled strongly that the United States will not push to implement the new guidelines because that would triple the number of people eligible to receive the drugs and greatly increase costs....
Yeah, just wither away there, African; he's got banks and wars to lavish tax loot upon.
That is bound to anger AIDS advocates who are already accusing the Obama administration of scaling back the AIDS fight.
“Ambitious goals were a big part of the success,’’ said Emi MacLean, US director of the Doctors Without Borders Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. “We can’t stop now.’’
ANOTHER DISAPPOINTED CONSTITUENCY!
Looks like all he has left are the war-profiteers, Wall Street, and the Zionist Israeli Jews.
Others say treating more people earlier will ultimately save money because it will make infected people much less contagious, effectively eradicating the spread of the disease....
Yeah, for SOME REASON that GAINS TRACTION when it is STIMULOOT but NOT AFRICAN HEALTH!
If Obomber was not black I would call him a racist!
I guess the correct term is ELITIST, isn't it?
Dr. Robert Einterz, director of Indiana University’s Center for Global Health, which helps care for 70,000 HIV-infected patients, about half of whom are on antiretrovirals, said his program continues to do door-to-door AIDS tests in western Kenya, enrolling 1,000 to 2,000 new patients a month.
“My biggest fear is that tomorrow a funder in Washington will say, ‘You can’t do that. You have got to stop enrolling patients,’ ’’ he said.
That is where his dad and brother are from, too!!!
Is there a heart in the chest cavity, or just a narcissistic reflection?
In Zambia, clinics have also continued to enroll new patients by cutting back on the care they give each one.
That's another ObamaCare option.
But if enrollment continues at the current rate, while donor funding levels stay the same, the country will not be able to afford drugs for all the patients who are signed up to receive them by 2012, according to Walter Proper, country director of John Snow Inc., a Boston-based drug supply company that brings antiretrovirals to Zambia.
Also see: The Zany Zambian Election
See what is truly important?
Dr. Sten Vermund of Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Global Health, which runs clinics in Mozambique, was told to cancel plans to open new HIV clinics in the rural areas.
“We have been told no,’’ he said. “The US government fears that it is taking on a ‘treatment’ mortgage that they will have to pay off for 50 years — or until we discover a cure.’’
TOO BAD they were NOT BANKS!
The TAXPAYER MONEY WOULD BE HANDED over within DAYS!
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You believe what you want to believe, readers.
And now Obama is pulling the IV from the African arm?
