Jan 17, 2023
Building on PEPFAR's Success: Is a win for U.S. foreign policy
By: Deborah L. Birx, M.D., Dr. William R. Steiger, Crystal Cazier
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been extremely successful over the 20 years since the program was launched by President George W. Bush. PEPFAR has saved more than 25 million lives, including preventing more than 5.5 million babies from acquiring HIV by working directly in communities and with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria and other institutions.