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Developing a New Partnership for Pediatric AIDS Treatment

On March 13, 2006, First Lady Laura Bush announced an unprecedented public-private partnership to promote scientific and technical discussions on solutions for pediatric HIV treatment, formulations and access. This partnership includes innovator and generic pharmaceutical companies - the first time large numbers of both types of companies have participated in such a partnership -, civil society organizations such as Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), and the United Nations system through UNAIDS, UNICEF and WHO, to work together with agencies across the USG to bring together a wide range of expertise, seeking to maximize the utility of currently available pediatric formulations and to accelerate children's access to treatment.

This partnership will complement other efforts of the President's Emergency Plan to support programs that expand treatment for adults and children, such as support for health care capacity-building and expedited regulatory review of drugs through HHS/FDA. The partnership will offer children and parents hope for a better day - the hope of families staying together, leading healthy lives, and living positively with HIV/AIDS.

  

Pediatric AIDS Treatment
Mrs. Laura Bush visits with representatives from the Mothers to Mothers-To-Be program of South Africa, Monday, March 13, 20006 in the Yellow Oval Room in the private residence at the White House. Mrs. Bush had earlier met with members of the program, who mentor and counsel mothers who come for prenatal care to clinics and find they are HIV-positive, on her visit to South Africa in July of 2005. From left to right are Babalwa Mbono, Aunt Manyongo 'Kunene' Mosima Tantoh and Gloria Ncanywa. White House photo by Kimberlee Hewitt.
-- Building a New Public-Private Partnership for Pediatric AIDS Treatment
-- Remarks at White House on Mothers to Mothers Program and New Pediatric AIDS Treatment Initiative


 
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