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Governance And Transparency At Pepfar, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Brook K. Baker
Governance And Transparency At Pepfar, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Brook K. Baker
Brook K. Baker
The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been one of the most effective foreign aid programmes in history. It reached 6ยท7 million people with antiretroviral therapy in 2013, and has also strengthened country health systems, provided billions of dollars in aid to biomedical and behavioural prevention programmes, and helped to drive declines in morbidity and mortality in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. PEPFAR began as an emergency response, after relative inaction by wealthy nations, and rapidly built disease-response capacity by funding non-governmental organisations.