HIV/AIDS

PEPFAR in the News

The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a bill to reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). [Read more.]

Minority Threatens to Derail PEPFAR Reauthorization over Opposition to Family Planning

The House Committee of Foreign Affairs is poised to mark-up a bill that will reauthorize the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and correct the critical flaws in the existing program, which hinder its effectiveness. [Read more.]

U.S. HIV/AIDS and Family Planning/Reproductive Health Assistance: A Growing Disparity Within PEPFAR Focus Countries

Since the implementation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in 2004, U.S. foreign assistance to fight HIV/AIDS has laudably increased in the program’s fifteen focus countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Asia. [Read more.]

Recommendations for Implementing the Global Fund Board’s Gender Decision Point

In November 2007, the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria passed a decision urging the Secretariat to make important and rapid changes to the staffing structure and strategy of all Global Fund mechanisms to ensure a gender-sensitive response in all Global Fund programming. [Read more.]

Fact Sheet—Family Planning: A Crucial Intervention for HIV-positive Women

Each year, over 600,000 children around the world are infected with HIV through mother-to-child-transmission (MTCT), totaling 2.3 million children living with HIV or AIDS today. The majorities of these infections are occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and are acquired from mothers during pregnancy, labor, delivery or breastfeeding. [Read more.]

What You Need to Know About the Global Gag Rule and U.S. HIV/AIDS Assistance

The Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule, was reinstated in 2001. It is a complicated policy for which explanations are rarely brief. Consequently, it is widely misunderstood and often over-interpreted. [Read more]

Stress Factor Two: Rapid Urban Growth

Urbanization—technically, the proportional growth of urban dwellers in any population at the expense of the rural proportion—appears to be an inexorable historical trend. The movement to cities has contributed to economic growth and globalization, as increasing numbers of people find homes close to schools, health clinics, workplaces and communication networks that connect them to the rest of the world. [Read more.]

Youth in Vietnam Ignored by PEPFAR

Bush's announcement last week to double the funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to $30 billion was nothing less than political brilliance on his part. I mean that genuinely. It was a preemptive strike to once again claim empathetic superiority in an area once reserved for well-meaning progressives. [Read more.]