IOM Report Advises Shift in Focus for Next Phase of US AIDS Relief Program

• Autores: Anita Slomski
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 309, Nº. 16, 2013, págs. 1672-1673
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • When President George W. Bush announced the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in 2003, the $15 billion 5-year program was an ambulance racing to the global AIDS firestorm. With no consensus that it was even possible to administer large-scale AIDS services in sub-Saharan African countries, the goal then was to provide antiretroviral treatment to 2 million people with HIV and to prevent 7 million new HIV infections.