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PEPFAR Reauthorization

  President George W. Bush is joined by Annette Lantos, right, and invited guests Wednesday, July 30, 2008 in the East Room of the White House, as he signs H.R. 5501, the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008. White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian   On July 30, 2008, President Bush signed into law H.R. 5501, the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act. In 2003, President Bush launched the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to combat global HIV/AIDS - the largest commitment by any nation to combat a single disease in human history. The new legislation will dramatically increase the financial commitment to this fight - authorizing up to  
  $48 billion to combat global HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Under this legislation, the next phase of the American people's commitment to those suffering from HIV/AIDS will support treatment for at least 3 million people; prevention of 12 million new infections; and care for 12 million people, including 5 million orphans and vulnerable children.

Latest PEPFAR Treatment Results

 

Globally, PEPFAR supported life-saving antiretroviral treatment for approximately 1.73 million men, women and children as of March 31, 2008. Of this, PEPFAR supported life-saving antiretroviral treatment for more than 1.64 million people through bilateral programs in PEPFAR's 15 focus countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.

When President Bush announced PEPFAR, it was estimated that only 50,000 people were receiving treatment for HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Of those for whom PEPFAR supported treatment as of March 2008, nearly 1.68 million are in this region. [Fact Sheet | Press Release]

Number of Individuals Receiving Antiretroviral Treatment: Total of both upstream and downstream USG-supported interventions in PEPFAR's 15 focus countries

2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting

The 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting opened on June 3, 2008 in Kampala, drawing more than 1,700 HIV/AIDS implementers from Uganda and throughout the world.  From left to right: Dr. Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Ambassador Mark Dybul, Coordinator of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR); H.E. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda; Mrs. Janet Museveni, First Lady of the Republic of Uganda; Dr. Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director; and Dr. Kevin Moody, International Coordinator and CEO of the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+). Photo by Arne Clausen.
 

The 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting took place in Kampala, Uganda from June 3-7, 2008, drawing more than 1,700 HIV/AIDS implementers from Uganda and throughout the world. More than 70 countries were represented at the meeting, a testament to the global partnerships to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and a reflection of the conference theme, “Scaling Up Through Partnerships: Overcoming Obstacles to Implementation.”

An archived webcast of select sessions from the meeting will be provided by kaisernetwork.org, a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation. The webcast and related online resources will be available following the meeting at: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/hivimplementers2008.

For more information on the meeting, please visit www.hivimplementers.org.

Additional Implementers' Meeting Resources:

  

A-Z Subject Index

Click here to view PEPFAR's Saving Lives Creating Hope documentary.

Fourth Annual Report to Congress on PEPFAR

PEPFAR Highlights
  -- The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - August 2008 Newsletter
  -- Update on the planning of PEPFAR-supported Public Health Evaluation (PHE) studies
  -- Statement of the United States of America at the 2008 UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS
  -- Ambassador Mark Dybul's Remarks on the Global Response to HIV and Tuberculosis, HIV-TB Global Leaders' Forum Panel

PEPFAR Issue Brief Series
Issue Briefs
  The PEPFAR Issue Brief Series
is now complete.

Each Issue Brief provides an overview of the intervention area, examples of PEPFAR-supported work, information about results, and lists of key resources on the topic.
 

 
 Fact Sheets and Issue Briefs Key Public Information
 Annual Report to Congress







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