The US has supported HIV/Aids programmes in South Africa through the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar). The health department drew 17% of the budget for its HIV programme from ...

In 2022, $460 million from PEPFAR represented 18% of South Africa’s $2.56 billion HIV budget. Our resulting study underwent the rigorous and often long process of academic peer review ...

Pepfar would dedicate US$15 billion over five years with the goals of preventing 7 million new infections, treating 2 million people, and caring for another 10 million infected with HIV or ...

“PEPFAR is the most efficient deployment of health resources I have seen,” said professor Francois Venter of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, who has worked in the HIV sector ...

But cost kept the drugs out of reach for African countries. Only about 100,000 of the 20 million people infected with HIV in Africa were accessing drug treatment in 2003. The turnaround A major ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Since 2003, Pepfar funding has saved 26 million lives by providing essential HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The ...