Democracy Dies in Darkness

Opinion PEPFAR has made so much progress against AIDS. We can’t let up now.

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January 28, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EST
Kenyan girls attend a March 10, 2018, event in Nairobi. (Ben Curtis/Associated Press)
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Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In January 2000, a grim cover story in Newsweek forecast that as many as 30 million African children could be orphaned by 2010 because of AIDS deaths. Demographers predicted that AIDS would kill half the teenagers in some African countries.