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Senate vote renews US government’s global AIDS programme PEPFAR
17 July 2008
17 July 2008 17 July 2008
Credit: President's Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief
The US Senate has voted on legislation authorizing US$ 48 billion for AIDS, TB and malaria over the next five years. The legislation will replace and expand three-fold the current US$ 15 billion act passed by Congress in 2003 which expires at the end of September.
U.S. President George W. Bush announced the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR/Emergency Plan) in a State of the Union address in 2003. It was the largest commitment ever by a country for an international health initiative dedicated to a single disease.
There are 15 focus countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Caribbean being assisted by the PEPFAR.
Senate vote renews US government’s global AIDS pr
Press centre:
UNAIDS welcomes United States Senate action to renew its global AIDS programme (16 July 2008)
Statement on PEPFAR reauthorization vote by full US House of Representatives (03 April 2008)
UNAIDS welcomes call for $30 billion to the AIDS response (30 May 2007)
