protect lives. protect pepfar.

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is a one-of-a-kind American investment. It is an extremely efficient, cost-effective program that yields astonishing returns. Through innovative, targeted, and science-based HIV prevention and treatment programming, PEPFAR has saved over 25 million lives, helped stabilize nations through health infrastructure investments, and fundamentally changed the course of the HIV pandemic. 

With clear spending priorities, proven results, and rigorous oversight, the program accounts for every dollar spent. Despite flat funding for well over a decade, the program has continued to save lives and helped to make America stronger, safer, and more secure.

In fiscal year 2024, $4.9 billion (.0725% of the total U.S. budget) was allocated to PEPFAR. The program spent:

Every single minute, someone dies from AIDS-related causes. Until HIV/AIDS is no longer an epidemic anywhere, it is a risk everywhere, including in the U.S. To save lives we must protect PEPFAR.