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The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is one of the best examples of bipartisan U.S. global leadership. Through innovative, targeted, and science-based HIV prevention and treatment programming, this initiative has saved 25 million lives and counting, helped stabilize nations through health infrastructure investments, and fundamentally changed the course of the HIV pandemic. We are […]

Co-authored by: Elizabeth Lovinger, U.S. and Global Health Policy Director, Treatment Action Group and Jenni Maple, Associate Director of Advocacy, IAVI There are many problems without solutions. Tuberculosis isn’t one. Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest, deadliest pandemics. It’s also the leading cause of death among people living with HIV (PLHIV) who are at […]

Scripps News program, The Why recently interviewed Shepherd Smith, GAPP member and founder and former president of Children’s AIDS Fund, about PEPFAR reauthorization.

By: Doug Fountain, Executive Director, Christian Connections for International Health, with Dr. Samuel Mwenda, General Secretary, Christian Health Association of Kenya, and Dr. Tih Pius Muffih, Director of Health Services, Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) became a beacon from the U.S. to the world; a light that […]

*This article originally appeared on The Body. On the 20th anniversary of its launch, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), widely seen as perhaps the most successful U.S. foreign aid program ever, faces a perilous path to Congressional reauthorization—the process by which the program would be locked in place, as is, for another five years. […]

*This article was originally published in the Bay Area Reporter It is critical that Congress reauthorize the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, better known as PEPFAR. Congressmember Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) wrote a Guest Opinion piece on that topic for the Bay Area Reporter in March, but since then, the legislation faces the new threat of abortion […]

The Global AIDS Policy Partnership is made stronger by each of the contributions of our 70+ members. That is why we wanted to highlight the unique stories and invaluable contributions of each of the individuals and organizations that make up our community through a new blog series. Fittingly, our inaugural post features someone who has […]

We can meet the goal of ending AIDS as a global health threat by 2030. We have the tools and knowledge at our disposal. However, more than 40 years into the epidemic, HIV continues to exact an unacceptable cost. With two decades of experience and success behind it, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief […]

*This article, co-authored by GAPP members Chris Collins, President and CEO of Friends of the Global Fight, and Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, President and Executive Director of Global Health Council, originally appeared in Global Health News NOW In the aftermath of COVID-19, there have been many proposals to address future health threats. Countries are negotiating a Pandemic Accord. […]

This piece, authored by the GAPP co-chairs, originally appeared in the Health Affairs Forefront blog. The words “gridlock in Congress” are used so often that it’s hard to believe there are still issues that are truly bipartisan. However, after many decades, there is one issue that continues to receive support from both sides of the […]