PEPFAR

See also: Pepfar

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The referent president is the U.S. president, who was George W. Bush at the time of the program's creation; details at Wikipedia.

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PEPFAR

  1. (medicine) Acronym of President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
    • 2014, Daniel Jordan Smith, “Introduction”, in AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 15:
      The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), created under US President George W. Bush's administration, promoted a conservative approach to AIDS prevention through its ABC messages, which were (1) abstinence is the only true prevention; (2) if one is in a sexual relationship, stay faithful to one partner; and (3) if one can't do either, use condoms.
    • 2025 February 7, Andrew Natsios, “Don't Gut USAID”, in Foreign Affairs‎[1], archived from the original on 27 September 2025:
      The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has saved an estimated 25 million lives since it was launched in 2003; the halt threw the program into chaos, although it was later granted a limited waiver to resume some activities.

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