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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
- (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.
2019 July 17, David Pilling, “Why George W Bush is Africa’s favourite US president”, in Financial Times:Begun in 2003 and covering some 50 countries, Pepfar has saved the lives of an estimated 13m people living with HIV-Aids, mostly in Africa, by providing them with antiretroviral drugs.
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