The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in Tanzania

Tanzania is one of the 15 focus countries of President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The focus countries collectively represent approximately 50 percent of HIV infections worldwide.

PEPFAR funding for Tanzania to support comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care programs has risen from $70.7 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 to $205.5 million in FY2007. In FY2008, PEPFAR plans to provide approximately $303 million.

Partnerships to Fight HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

The success of the Emergency Plan is firmly rooted in partnerships between the American people and the people of Tanzania. Together, we are building sys­tems and empowering individuals, communities and nations to tackle HIV/AIDS.

• As of September 30, 2007, PEPFAR has supported 96,700 men, women and children receiving antiretroviral treatment in Tanzania. In 2003, there were only 50,000 people on treatment in all of sub-Saharan Africa.

Recognizing it is important for people to know their HIV status, Mrs. Bush proposed International HIV Testing Day at the United Nations in 2006. In Tanzania, President Kikwete and Mama Kikwete have been leaders in promoting HIV counseling and testing, launching Tanzania’s National Testing and Counseling Campaign in July 2007.

• PEFPAR has supported more than 1.8 million counseling and testing sessions in Tanzania.

In addition, working in partnership with the Government and the people of Tanzania, PEPFAR has supported through September 30, 2007:

• Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services for women during more than 1.1 million pregnancies, averting an estimated 9,000 infant HIV infections;
• Care for approximately 745,400 people, including care for approximately 471,300 orphans and vulnerable children; and
• Nearly 5.8 million people reached by programs to prevent sexual transmission in 2007.
  • The U.S. Government has also supplied more than 57 million condoms since 2004.