Twenty years after the virus first came into the public eye, President George W. Bush launched the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This coordinated effort between the president’s office and eight U.S. federal agencies provided about $15 billion to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS to fifteen priority countries. These priority countries (twelve of which were in Africa) represented those hardest hit by HIV. Bush called it a demonstration of “compassionate conservatism.” For the first time, global programs such as PEPFAR and the Global Fund were working together to combat a single disease. Four years after PEPFAR was launched, global deaths from HIV/AIDS finally went down for the first time.