Transfer of health

President Bush is in Zambia this week.  The photos of him and Laura with adorable babies are very touching.  Not sure, but I think they are there to support a cervical cancer clinic.  PEPFAR, a Bush program to save people with AIDS, was probably the single most successful program for Africa since the days of DDT.  When Obama came to office he decided to tweak it by expanding it to TB and malaria, which are bigger killers than AIDS, but with not enough funding to do all 3 major killers.  And now even the modest increase it got from the U.S. in the early Obama regime has been frozen for 2013. Even JAMA, or at least its writer on global issues, is calling it a crisis.  Diseases, researchers, doctors, nurses, clinics, medications, etc. are not mix and match.  Each is very special.  By spreading the wealth, he didn't spread the health.