PEPFAR’s Impact on Global Health Is Fading
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - "During its fifteen years, PEPFAR has become one of the most important global health initiatives ever launched. However, its influence is fading, threatening the global fight against HIV/AIDS as the struggle against the pandemic faces a turning point.
(...) PEPFAR is the most consequential initiative ever launched against HIV/AIDS. Through 2017, the United States had spent more than $70 billion on it. By comparison, the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria has disbursed $17.5 billion for HIV/AIDS since 2002, a total that includes contributions from PEPFAR. The program has provided ARV treatment for more than 13.3 million people, the biggest contribution to the 20.9 million people on ARVs that the Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) recorded in June 2017." (Photo: PEPFAR-17/U.S. Embassy Dar Es Salaam/flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)