AIDS.gov Blog Update

AIDS.gov Blog Update

AIDS.gov Blog Update

U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services sent this bulletin at 04/14/2014 10:10 AM EDT

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Statement from Ambassador Deborah Birx, M.D., U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, on the Principles of PEPFAR’s Public Health Approach

04/14/2014 09:25 AM EDT

Since its creation in 2003, PEPFAR has been fundamentally about saving lives. When PEPFAR began, in much of the world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, lives were being lost to HIV/AIDS at a truly terrifying rate. Individuals, families, communities – and in some cases the very foundation of societies – were being threatened under an unfathomable...