Bush’s daughter leads global health group

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FILE - In this July 10, 2003 file photo, Barbara Bush, right, rides with her parents, U.S. President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush, as they tour the Mokolodi Nature Reserve outside Gaborone, Botswana. In interview with The Associated Press Friday, June 27, 2014, Barbara Bush said that witnessing hundreds of people waiting for drugs during her trip to Africa in 2003 influenced her decision to chose global health as a career path. In 2008 she co-founded Global Health Corps, which places young professionals with health organizations in the United States and Africa for a year of service to improve health care access. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Barbara Bush was struck by what she saw when she arrived in Africa more than a decade ago as her father, then-President George W. Bush, unveiled a plan to combat AIDS: Hundreds of people were waiting in the streets for antiretroviral drugs that were readily available in the United States for years.

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