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How the culture war came for condoms, PrEP, and HIV testing

The Trump administration | Arlette Bashizi/The Washington Post If the US wanted to be the world’s police officer, then why not try to be its doctor too? Just two months before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush announced an ambitious plan to pump $15 billion into the global fight against HIV, stunning his allies in Congress, health advocates, and heads of state of the program’s intended beneficiaries. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, was the largest commitment by any nation in history dedicated to addressing a single disease, a disease that kille...