Long live our glorious leader.

[Jester]

Although, funding for Aids prevention, including the distribution of condoms, and pharma went up exponentially during the Bush presidency.

http://www.annals.org/content/150/10/688.full

Stanford study first ever to show US AIDS Relief program saved a million lives

So, at best, you might say that more lives might have been saved had they not wasted a large portion on the abstinence part. Even with the alleged waste, it was far more than any previous administration had done to relieve the epidemic in Africa.

From the numbers in your links, about 7% of funding was explicitly earmarked for abstinence *only* programs. But, of course, 7% is a drop in the bucket compared with 93% for better ideas.

I note that the studies showed no difference in AIDS prevalence between countries receiving the aid and the controls - which might be evidence against the effectiveness of the prevention strategy. The second article seems to hint at this - that prevention must be focused on to a greater extent.

However, all efforts to alleviate the effects and restrict the spread of AIDS are greatly appreciated. I don't like very many things that Bush did, but allocating money to fighting AIDS is something I support, even if I find some of his delivery methods to be highly suspect. If Obama can fix those while maintaining financial support, I'll be even happier - although economic implosions don't usually create much in the way of charity.

-Jester