President Bush Announces Five-Year, $30 Billion HIV/AIDS Plan

President George W. Bush holds Baron Mosima Loyiso Tantoh in the Rose Garden of the White House Wednesday, May 30, 2007, after delivering a statement on PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. (White House photo by Eric Draper)

June 5, 2007 - On May 30, 2007, President Bush announced his intention to work with Congress to reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Emergency Plan). The five-year, $30 billion proposal would double the President's initial $15 billion commitment, made in the State of the Union address in January 2003.

Assuming Congress meets the President's request for Fiscal Year 2008, and with the new $30 billion proposal, the American people will have committed $48.3 billion across 10 years to fight HIV/AIDS.

The President also announced that, through March 31, 2007—after only three years of implementation of his Emergency Plan—the American people have supported treatment for 1.1 million people in the Plan's 15 focus countries, including more than one million in Africa.

The next phase of the American people's commitment to those who are suffering from HIV/AIDS will continue to expand life-saving treatment, comprehensive prevention programs and care for those in need, including orphans and vulnerable children, to support the following targets:

• Treatment for 2.5 million people;
• Prevention of more than 12 million new infections; and
• Care for more than 12 million people, including 5 million orphans and vulnerable children.

For more information:

• Remarks, President Bush Announces Five-Year, $30 Billion HIV/AIDS Plan (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief)
• Fact Sheet: President Bush Announces Five-Year, $30 Billion HIV/AIDS Plan (White House)
• Fact Sheet: A Record of Commitment to Africa (White House)
• Latest 2007 PEPFAR Treatment Results (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief)
• WHO Welcomes United States' Call for Renewed Commitment to AIDS (World Health Organization)

Last revised: August 14, 2007