Twenty Years of PEPFAR

Twenty years ago, on January 28, 2003, President George W. Bush announced a program to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Carribean that would change the world. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was, and is, the largest disease-specific global health program in history, and this century's most successful effort to end a plague

Governance
a red ribbon marks World AIDS Day on the North Portico of the White House

PEPFAR's Twentieth Anniversary Might Be Its Last

by Emily Bass

Proposed changes to the mold-breaking program could break it for good

Environment
US President George W. Bush speaks on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief as Bishop Paul Yowakim looks on 30 May 2007 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.

PEPFAR Meets Climate Change

by David P. Fidler

Another president's emergency plan for another global health crisis

Governance
An audience member holds up a "Fund PEPFAR" sign, during President Barack Obama's speech at a campaign event at Herman Park in Boone, Iowa, on August 13, 2012.

PEPFAR in a Global Democratic Recession

by Mark P. Lagon

At age twenty, PEPFAR's continued success depends on weathering an illiberal wave worldwide

Governance
Former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela—wearing a white t-shirt with HIV POSITIVE in purple printed on the front—visits the township of Khayelitsha in Western Cape, South Africa. Photo by Media24/Gallo Images/Getty Images

In South Africa, Much More Than an Investment in HIV

by Mary Brophy Marcus

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, UNAIDS special ambassador for adolescents and HIV, on "building one house" for health