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PEPFAR Releases New Treatment Numbers

July 11th, 2008 at 11:47 am | posted by Josh Lozman

This week PEPFAR released that as of March 2008, the program was contributing to the treatment of 1.73 million people, 1.68 million of them in Africa. PEPFAR has provided care to 12.7 million pregnant mothers and prevented an estimated 194,000 infant infections.

PEPFAR has now been appropriated $18.8 billion across its first five years and is the largest international health initiative in history focused on one disease. It’s original goal was to support treatment for 2 million people in its first five years. Nine months from the end of the first five years, the trajectory looks good to meet that goal.

-Josh Lozman

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2 Responses to “PEPFAR Releases New Treatment Numbers”

  1. Debbie K Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    Hey Josh,

    Thanks for this GREAT info on PEPFAR - this program is a bonafide success and should be re-authorized by Congress asap so that PEPFAR (www.pepfar.gov) can continue its amazing work in the world!

    I would like to know if a vote was taken today on PEPFAR or not. If it was, what was the result?

    If a vote wasn’t taken, do we know when it will be taken?

    I hope that someone will answer my question because I’ve been concerned about this vote all day.
    Thanks for any info on PEPFAR’s status before Congress.

    ONE HEART, ONE HOPE, ONE VOICE, ONE LOVE - debbie :)
    www.mpwn-uganda.org
  2. Rochelle Gibbs Says:
    July 12th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    Hi Debbie and other interested folks ;) This is my understanding of where PEPFAR stands in the Senate.

    On Friday July 11, in a vote for this cloture motion (which is used to overcome a congressional stall), there was 65 yea votes (and 3 nay). It needed 60 to take effect and iIf I understand this ruling correctly, the time limit is now not to exceed more than 30 hours before further consideration on PEPFAR. My guess is that this puts it out 30 “working hours” and it will be mid to late week before anything more comes about on a ruling for the reauthorization. Although it’s sort of a mute point as it passed, the 3 nays were Barrasso (R-WY) Kyl (R-AZ) and Sessions (R-AL). I know we all have PEPFAR on our minds and it would be nice to hear / read what we can hope to expect in the next week from the policy folks here at ONE who have a stronger background on all this.

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