PEPFAR’s Five-Year Strategy
On World AIDS Day, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) launched its Five-Year Strategy, outlining the direction of the program for its next phase. The strategy takes into account lessons learned in the first five years of the program, increases commitments around service delivery, and further emphasizes sustainability.
Specifically, PEPFAR’s next phase will:
- Transition from an emergency response to promotion of sustainable country programs.
- Strengthen partner government capacity to lead the response to this epidemic and other health demands.
- Expand prevention, care, and treatment in both concentrated and generalized epidemics.
- Integrate and coordinate HIV/AIDS programs with broader global health and development programs to maximize impact on health systems.
- Invest in innovation and operations research to evaluate impact, improve service delivery and maximize outcomes.
New program targets were also announced around prevention (support the prevention of 12 million new HIV infections, double the number of at-risk babies born HIV-free), care and support and treatment (provide direct support for more than 4 million people on treatment, support care for more than 12 million people), and sustainability (support training and retention of more than 140,000 new health care workers to strengthen health systems).
Forthcoming annexes will provide further information about specific areas within the strategy.
Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, just participated in a town hall-style session with the Kaiser Family Foundation to discuss PEPFAR’s new five-year strategy earlier today. You can view the webcast here.
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December 5, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Thanks so much, Rena, for this update on PEPFAR. It’s good to see this program incorporate aspects of sustainable development as it addresses the immediate needs of fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS. For those of us who were there at the beginning of our movement, PEPFAR has always been a shining light for the people of Africa which brings them renewed hope & life.
Under the direction of Eric Goosby, I think that PEPFAR will have an even brighter future.
AS ONE, debbie
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December 5, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Dr. Goosby’s town hall performance was great. He really seems to appreciate that you have to tackle all of the causes of poverty and disease together.
December 6, 2009 at 11:01 am
Great update.
December 17, 2009 at 4:48 am
Doubling the number of at-risk babies born free of HIV infection (during the first five years of PEPFAR, the program helped ensure that 240,000 babies of HIV-positive mothers were born without HIV.Ensuring that partner countries with generalized epidemics have 80 percent HIV testing coverage for pregnant women and 85 percent ARV prophylaxis and treatment for women found to be HIV-positive.