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The
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
- Zambia 2006 Report
The
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, often known as PEPFAR, is
a U.S. five year $15 billion global initiative to combat the HIV/AIDS
epidemic. In his State of the Union Address in January 2003, President
Bush made a commitment to substantially increase U.S. support to addressing
the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. ."I ask the Congress to commit $15
billion over the next five years, to turn the tide against AIDS in the
most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean" President Bush
said.
In May 2003, the U.S. Congress approved, and President Bush signed into
law, the "United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis
and Malaria Act of 2003" (PL108-25). This legislation approved expenditure
of up to $15 billion over 5 years and it provides the legal and policy
framework for the expenditure. The sum of $15 billion is the proposed
expenditure of the U.S. Government on HIV/AIDS outside of the U.S. over
a five-year period. This is in addition to domestic HIV/AIDS expenditure
for which $21 billion was requested for fiscal year (FY) 2006.
Congress has stated in the legislation that there should be a: "particular
focus on the needs of families with children (including the prevention
of mother to child transmission), women, young people, and children (such
as unaccompanied minor children and orphans)"
See more on the President's
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, (PEPFAR)
PEPFAR
Global Website
PEPFAR
Zambia Website
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