What’s behind the debate to re-authorize PEPFAR, the widely hailed anti-HIV effort?

By Gabriel Spitzer

PEPFAR, the U.S. multibillion dollar effort to fight HIV/AIDS, funds organizations such as the Coptic hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.

The program launched by President George W. Bush is credited with saving 25 million lives. Some in Congress want this year’s reauthorization tied to language that PEPFAR will not “promote abortion.”

(Image credit: Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

Source: What’s behind the debate to re-authorize PEPFAR, the widely hailed anti-HIV effort?