Sub-Saharan Africa bears the greatest global burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection; 70% (25.0 million) of all persons living with HIV reside in this region. Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has been shown to reduce the risk for heterosexually acquired HIV among men by approximately 60% in three randomized controlled trials. Further studies found that the protection fr...

The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has supported the Vietnamese Ministry of Health (MOH) in implementing behavior change strategies to slow the HIV epidemic. These programs target commercial sex workers (CSW), injection drug users (IDU), and men who have sex with men (MSM). Using data from a program evaluation to assess effectiveness of the PEPFAR intervention, we cond...

The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has supported a comprehensive package of care in which interventions to address HIV-related tuberculosis (TB) have received increased funding and support in recent years. PEPFAR's TB/HIV programming is based on the World Health Organization's 12-point policy for collaborative TB/HIV activities, which are integrated into PEPFAR annual gu...

BACKGROUND The association between harmful use of alcohol and HIV infection is well documented. To address this dual epidemic, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) developed and implemented a multi-pronged approach primarily in Namibia and Botswana. We present the approach and preliminary results of the public health investigative and programmatic activities designed, init...

More than three million people in Nigeria are living with HIV/AIDS. In order to reduce the HIV/AIDS burden in Nigeria, the US Government (USG) has dedicated significant resources to combating the epidemic through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In-service training (IST) of health workers is one of the most commonly used strategies to improve the quality and coverage of ...

BACKGROUND South Africa has an estimated 1.5 million persons in need of antiretroviral therapy (ART). In 2004, the South African government began collaborating with the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to increase access to ART. We determined how PEPFAR treatment support changed from 2005-2009. METHODS In order to describe the change in number and type of PEPF...

In this issue: In Focus The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) 3.0 – Controlling the Epidemic: Delivering on the Promise of an AIDS-free Generation Accuracy of Unsupervised Versus Provider-Supervised Self-Administered HIV Testing in Uganda: A Randomized Implementation Trial Initial Programmatic Implementation of WHO Option B in Botswana Associated with Increased P...

In sub-Saharan Africa, transfusion-transmitted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection persists, particularly among women and children, who receive most blood transfusions. Providing technical and financial assistance to national blood transfusion services to increase the adequacy of blood collections and to prevent transfusion-transmitted HIV infection continues to be a priority under the...

Heller DJ, Kishore SP. BMJ Glob Health 2017;2:e000429. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000429 Thanks to aggressive action over the past 15 years, death and disease from HIV and AIDS has steadily declined, and with new evidence that treating HIV also prevents transmission, discussions of the ‘end of AIDS’ grow louder. Support for HIV/AIDS control programmes such as the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis,...