U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief 2015 United Nations General Assembly Sustainable Development Summit Fact Sheet

U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief 2015 United Nations General Assembly Sustainable Development Summit Fact Sheet


The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is the largest commitment by any nation to address a single disease. Through PEPFAR, the U.S. government has invested $65 billion dollars, including nearly $50 billion since the beginning of the Obama administration.

As a global community, we have begun to reverse the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Yet, our work is far from done. To control the epidemic and, ultimately, achieve an #AIDSfree generation, we must sustain and expand our collective gains.

New PEPFAR HIV Prevention and Treatment Targets Since its inception, PEPFAR has set ambitious targets – the achievement of which has prevented millions of new HIV infections, saved millions of lives, and accelerated progress toward achieving an AIDS-free generation.

President Obama is setting new PEPFAR HIV prevention and treatment targets, launching a bold course for the program moving forward. 

Prevention Targets

:  For the first time ever, PEPFAR has set specific targets for preventing new HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women. Working jointly with partner countries, the Global Fund, and the private sector.

PEPFAR will:

 o By the end of 2016, achieve a 25 percent reduction in HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women (aged 15-24) within the highest burden geographic areas of 10 sub-Saharan African countries.

o By the end of 2017, achieve a 40 percent reduction in HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women (aged 15-24) within the highest burden geographic areas of 10 sub-Saharan African countries

 By the end of 2016, PEPFAR will provide 11 million voluntary medical male circumcisions for HIV prevention, cumulatively. 

 By the end of 2017, PEPFAR will provide 13 million voluntary medical male circumcisions for HIV prevention, cumulatively. 

Treatment Targets:

 By the end of 2016, PEPFAR will support a total of 11.4 million children, pregnant women receiving B+, and adults on life-saving anti-retroviral treatment, of which 7.2 million are directly supported by PEPFAR funding and 4.2 million are supported through technical assistance, jointly with partner countries. 

 By the end of 2017, PEPFAR will support a total of 12.9 million children, pregnant women receiving B+, and adults on life-saving anti-retroviral treatment, of which 8.5 million are directly supported by PEPFAR funding and 4.4 million are supported through technical assistance, jointly with partner countries.

 With the inclusion of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) and partner country resources, we will be able to jointly support 18.5 million men, women, and children on life-saving treatment by the end of 2017.

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The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is the U.S. government’s global initiative to control the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It is the largest commitment by any nation to combat a single disease. Over the past decade, the U.S. government has committed more than $65 billion to bilateral HIV/AIDS programs, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and bilateral tuberculosis programs. GET MORE INFORMATION PEPFAR.gov | @PEPFAR Facebook/PEPFAR | #AIDSFreeGen 09/2015 

Supporting Adolescent Girls and Young Women to Fulfill their DREAMS 

HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death for women and girls of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries. Every year, 380,000 adolescent girls and young women are infected with HIV—7,300 every week, over 1,000 every day. In sub-Saharan Africa, they are up to five times more likely than their male counterparts to be living with HIV/AIDS. 

This must change. On World AIDS Day 2014, PEPFAR joined with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Girl Effect to launch the DREAMS Partnership in 10 high-burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa


GOMOJO is ready to join the Global Partnership to ensure that adolescent girls and young women have an opportunity to lives

 

Determined To Reach the HARDEST hit and to reach demographics
Resilient 
Empowered To discreetly carry, safely store and EASILY ACCESS male, female condoms, medications, linkage to care.
AIDS-free 
MentoredSafe lives access cess to male and female condoms

These 10 countries account for nearly half of all the new HIV infections that occurred among adolescent girls and young women globally in 2014. The U.S. government, through PEPFAR, is now investing nearly half a billion dollars to support an AIDS-free future for adolescent girls and young women. This includes strategically aligning $300 million in additional prevention investments in support of the PEPFAR-led DREAMS partnership and related efforts. This investment builds on what PEPFAR and private partners committed to DREAMS on World AIDS Day 2014.

http://www.pepfar.gov/documents/organization/247548.pdf