On Saturday, September 26, a day after the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by UN Member States in New York, PEPFAR announced investments of nearly half a billion dollars to support new HIV prevention targets that will dramatically expand access to HIV treatment and greatly reduce incidence among adolescent girls and young women. The targets will also strategically align $300 million in additional prevention investments in support of their DREAMS partnership and related efforts. Keep reading
This week marks the historic visit of Pope Francis to the USA. During his first stop in Washington, DC at a White House welcoming ceremony, the Pope called on all American women and men of good will to “support the efforts of the international community to protect the vulnerable in our world and to stimulate integral and inclusive models of development, so that our brothers and sisters everywhere may know the blessings of peace and prosperity which God wills for all his children”. Keep reading
Join EGPAF in Culver City California on Oct. 25, 2015 for our 26th annual “A Time For Heroes” family festival. The festival’s venue, Smashbox Studios, will offer state-of-the-art design and technology as a backdrop for the fun activities that kids of all ages will enjoy with their families. Keep reading
Today, EGPAF and UNITAID announced an exciting new initiative that will rapidly scale-up early infant diagnosis efforts in nine EGPAF countries. Working in partnership with ministries of health in the project countries, the initiative aims to test more than 215,000 infants for HIV, reaching approximately 30 percent of unmet testing needs in these countries and saving as many as 27,000 lives. Keep reading
EGPAF Ambassador Martha Cameron shares her personal story recieving care through the Ryan White CARE Act. Keep reading
HIV advocate and EGPAF Ambassador Ashley Rose Murphy courageously shares her personal story on living with HIV and why youth voices need to be heard, as the world gears up to set the global health and development agenda for the next 15 years. Keep reading
CDC Director Tom Frieden recently visited EGPAF-DRC to learn more about health system priorities in that country and to pay tribute to health workers on the front lines of the HIV and TB epidemics. Keep reading
At the 8th International AIDS Conference (IAS) Conference in Vancouver, the results of the START study have been released and provided a solid platform for the global HIV community around the to move HIV treatment paradigm to a Test and Treat approach. Keep reading
This week marks the 25th anniversary of President George H.W. Bush signing the Ryan White CARE Act into law. Since its inception the CARE Act has been instrumental in ensuring that Americans affected by HIV have access to the critical care and treatment services they need not only to survive but to thrive. Keep reading
