Third Annual Report Released on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

March 9, 2007 – Emphasizing the power of partnerships, the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator released its Third Annual Report to Congress today.  It describes the impressive results the people in those countries most affected by AIDS have achieved in addressing this pandemic. 

Launched in 2003, President Bush’s five-year, $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief was an urgent response to a deadly disease that is spreading rapidly across the globe.  The Emergency Plan, which is part of a broader international response, focuses on 15 countries that have experienced the highest number of AIDS cases.  Its linkages with both in-country and international partners has generated a model for addressing health crises by promoting a coordinated, U.S. Government response and local management and ownership. 

After only three years, the Emergency Plan has worked to with host nations to support anti-retroviral treatment for approximately 822,000 people in 15 focus nations, as well as 165,100 people elsewhere in the developing world, and to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission during approximately six million pregnancies.  As of September 30, 2006, it had also supported care for approximately two million orphans and vulnerable children.

By the end of Fiscal Year 2008, the American people will have invested $18.3 billion in the global fight against HIV/AIDS through the President's Emergency Plan.

To view profiles of the 15 focus countries of the Emergency Plan, please visit http://www.pepfar.gov/press/c19558.htm

For more information:

• The Power of Partnerships: Third Annual Report to Congress on PEPFAR (2007):

  http://www.pepfar.gov/press/c21604.htm

  (The United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief)

Last revised: February 26, 2010