Issue Brief
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was announced by President Bush in his 2003 State of the Union Address as a five-year, $15 billion initiative to combat global HIV/AIDS. It was reauthorized in 2008 for up to $39 billion to fight HIV/AIDS. PEPFAR is the largest international health initiative in history dedicated to fighting a single disease.
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PEPFAR Financing FY04-FY09 |
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Year |
Funding |
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FY2004 |
$2.3b |
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FY2005 |
$2.7b |
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FY2006 |
$3.3b |
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FY2007 |
$4.6b |
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FY2008 |
$6.3b |
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FY2009 |
$6.5b |
In 2002, President Bush announced a new $500 million International Mother and Child HIV Prevention Initiative - the first real scale-up in the fight against AIDS - which was later integrated into PEPFAR. Additionally, for several years preceding President Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address, bipartisan leaders in Congress, including Senators Frist and Kerry and Representatives Leach and Lee, had also been considering legislation on global HIV/AIDS. After the President's announcement, Congress passed the "United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003" (PL108-25) in May 2003, which authorized the framework under which PEPFAR would operate.
The law provided for expansion and better coordination of U.S. bilateral and multilateral efforts on AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS-related research with a focus on 15 countries. The law authorized spending $15 billion over five years for HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and research and created the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) to manage and coordinate all HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries. PEPFAR is centrally managed by the Department of State through OGAC. In all countries, OGAC relies on U.S. Embassies and key implementing agencies including the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Departments of Defense and Labor, and the Peace Corps, to implement PEPFAR programs.
The majority of PEPFAR financing is focused on 15 of the countries hardest-hit by HIV/AIDS in Africa, the Caribbean and Asia[1]. Though many believe PEPFAR refers only to the 15 focus countries, it includes all bilateral global HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis efforts as well as all funding to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM). U.S. bilateral funding for malaria is tracked separately, now that the President's Malaria Initiative has launched.
As of September, 2008
PEPFAR- sponsored programs are delivering substantial results around the world, including the following:
PEPFAR's original goals were to reach 2 million people with life-saving antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), prevent 7 million new infections and provide care to 10 million people affected by the disease. With the successful reauthorization of PEPFAR, the initiative will deliver increased results, supporting ARV treatment for a total of 3 million people, preventing a total of 12 million new infections and providing care to more than 12 million people, including five million orphans and vulnerable children. The slower scale-up in treatment results, in particular, can be attributed to the cost of maintaining existing people on treatment and increased costs expected as some patients move to more expensive second-line drug therapies.
[1] The 15 focus countries are Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.
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