BMJ 2009;339:b5525 (published online 21 December 2009 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b5525)
Author: Bob Roehr
“Ideology not science drove the prevention side of PEPFAR, the US international HIV/AIDS programme, during the Bush administration, an insider with personal knowledge of the situation said last week. The charge is not new but the source and the details are. They came at a forum at the liberal think tank The Center for American Progress. They are contained in a new report and recommendations, “How Ideology Trumped Science: Why PEPFAR has failed to meet its potential,” written by Scott Evertz, which is to be published shortly. He was the domestic “AIDS Czar” appointed by President George Bush in 2001. He lasted only 15 months before being shifted to a position in the department of health dealing with AIDS internationally.”
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