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

Abstract

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.