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Proud of PEPFAR

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 […]

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We Know What It Takes to End Tuberculosis

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 […]

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The Why: Interview with Shepherd Smith

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

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Why Christian Organizations Want Congress to Reauthorize PEPFAR

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 […]

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Will the Wildly Successful PEPFAR Global AIDS Program Get Held Up in Congress Due to Abortion Politics?

*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. […]

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Editorial: Congress must reauthorize PEPFAR

*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 […]

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Member Spotlight: Shepherd Smith

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 […]

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PEPFAR Represents U.S. Global Leadership at its Best

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 […]

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Learning Our Lessons: What’s Missing from Pandemic Preparedness

*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. […]

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PEPFAR Is A True Bipartisan Success With An Uncertain Future

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 […]

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