PEPFAR is the 'most amazing thing in the history of HIV,' says Dr. Sharon Lewin, president of the International AIDS Society. Bush himself came to Washington this month to urge reauthorization..
People living with HIV in those countries, which were often the hardest-hit by the epidemic, had"no chance of accessing treatments at all,", director of ICAP at Columbia University and professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, told NPR. "There was really absolutely no hope."
That was two decades ago. The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, soon become a greater triumph than experts like El-Sadr had dared imagine. It's the largest health commitment ever made by any country, now totaling more than $100 billion in more than 50 countries. And its work continues., an associate director for global health and HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation."It's been incredibly, wildly successful beyond anyone's expectations.
"I think people forget, and they feel sometimes that HIV has been taken care of," El-Sadr said."But that's not the case."The program, which is headquartered at the U.S. State Department, supports countries that have been hit hard by HIV., the U.S. global AIDS coordinator and special representative for global health diplomacy, told NPR. Nkengasong, who is Cameroonian-American, is the first Africa-born leader of PEPFAR.
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