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Sarah Lewis

Sarah Lewis is a fall intern for the operations team and government relations team at ONE's office in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Claremont McKenna College this spring, where she ran for the track team and majored in organizational studies.

A report on this week’s PEPFAR hearing


Oct 1st, 2010 11:16 AM UTC
By Sarah Lewis

On Wednesday, I went to a Congressional hearing titled “PEPFAR: From Emergency to Sustainability and Advances Against HIV/AIDS.” It was held by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Rayburn House Office Building. Several members of Congress (including Rep. Berman, Rep. Smith, Rep. Watson, Rep. Lee, and Rep. Woolsey ) came to discuss the challenges and successes of PEPFAR so far and how to make it more effective in the future.

The President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) launched in 2003 by President Bush and is the largest effort by any nation to combat a single disease and provides life-saving care to millions of people every year.

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