HIV/AIDS

More from the Series

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HIV Treatment in Rural South Africa Increases Employment among HIV-Negative Neighbors—Especially Women
December 02, 2019
This World AIDS Day, Mead Over and Julia Kaufman examine the positive spillover effects of treating HIV.
Recapping CGD Work on the Global Fund Ahead of Replenishment
September 16, 2019
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria—a pioneer in global health since 2002—has helped combat preventable diseases throughout the world. But this work is far from finished. In 2018, 40 percent of people living with HIV did not have access to treatment. TB incidence has ...
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With Budget Cuts Looming Again, Can PEPFAR Keep the Gas on its Acceleration Strategy?
March 19, 2019
PEPFAR has long enjoyed bipartisan support on the Hill. Yet, it has not been spared from significant cuts in President Trump’s latest budget request for foreign aid. It is noteworthy that this administration’s three successive budget requests have proposed increasingly large cu...
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On World AIDS Day, a Moment for Celebration and Self-Reflection
December 03, 2018
On World AIDS Day, December 1, we honor the advocates that transformed HIV/AIDS from a death sentence to a chronic disease. These activists bequeathed a golden age of global health—a boom in money and programs that is sustained today, evidenced by the recent reauthorization of PEPFAR. But...
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PEPFAR’s New Targets for Local Implementation: Commendable in Theory, Complicated in Practice
August 09, 2018
In July, United States Global AIDS Coordinator Deborah Birx made a striking commitment: under her leadership, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) would direct at least 40 percent of its funding to host country governments or organizations by the end of 2019—rising to ...
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Will PEPFAR “Acceleration” Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is?
July 02, 2018
We finally have some clarity on PEPFAR’s new “acceleration” strategy toward epidemic control: a lot more allocated to a few countries, and a lot less for others.
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DREAM Big: Emerging Results from a PEPFAR Partnership to Reduce HIV Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women
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Jessie Lu
June 14, 2018
It’s been three years since the rollout of the program began, and earlier this month in collaboration with the Population Council, CGD convened key players to discuss emerging results, what they mean for the future of DREAMS, and how we can ensure that the next years of programming go even farther t...