U.S. Issues Road Map to an AIDS-Free Generation

Secretary of State Clinton and UNAIDS Executive Director Sidibé shared the stage as they outlined a plan to achieve an AIDS-free generation. Photo: ©AP Images

U.S. officials battling HIV/AIDS have a goal to bring an AIDS-free generation into the world. When that may happen remains unknown, but on November 29 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out a five-point plan on how to get there. “HIV may well be with us into the future,” said Clinton, to an audience gathered at State Department headquarters, “but the disease it causes need not be.” A widening distribution of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) that protect HIV-infected persons from developing full-blown AIDS makes an AIDS-free generation an achievable goal. An international campaign to increase accessibility to ARVs has been building for the last decade, and the lifesaving medicines now reach 8 million people, according to a survey released by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) November 20. Read the full article.

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A child in Indonesia screams while getting a vaccination, but in the long run it could save her life. Donors pledged $4 billion June 13, 2011, to immunize more children worldwide. Photo: ©AP Images

U.S., Other Donors Make Big Investments in a Healthy Future

Some of the world’s richest nations (including the U.S. and EU member states) and organizations pledged June 13 to make significant investments in the health of the world’s poorest children. Donor nations and organizations committed $4.3 billion to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), which will enable the consortium to reach more than 250 million of the world’s poorest children with serums to protect them from life-threatening diseases. GAVI estimates that these funds and the efforts of the alliance partners will prevent more than 4 million premature deaths from disease by 2015. The United States, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is one of GAVI’s donor nations, and pledged $450 million to the mission at the London meeting. USAID administrator Rajiv Shah called it “one of the best, most cost-effective life-saving investments we have ever made.” GAVI’s structure allies donor governments, global foundations and international health organizations with developing-world governments to deliver the health benefits of vaccines to poor children. Read more.

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