Renewing a Focus on Prevention in U.S. Global AIDS Policy
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14 The world’s response to the AIDS pandemic is now at a crossroads. In recent years, the global community—stimulated by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) “3 by 5 Initiative”—has responded with an appropriate sense of urgency that has driven the rapid expansion of treatment services worldwide. Yet, even as life-saving drugs become more widely available, the rate of new HIV infections continues to climb, outpacing the capacity to treat people living with HIV and threatening the whole AIDS response.
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