Report Urges Forward-Looking Approach to Combating HIV/AIDS Abroad

Addressing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: A U.S. Global AIDS Strategy for the Long Term, edited by Princeton N. Lyman and Daniel M. Fox, is a report on a project by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Milbank Memorial Fund, in collaboration with the Open Society Institute, that evaluated the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Announced in January 2003, this $15-billion, five-year program seeks to curtail the HIV/AIDS pandemic in 15 countries. The report says the United States must adopt a broader, longer-term approach if the program’s goals of preventing seven million new infections, providing drug treatment for two million infected people, and caring for 10 million people with the disease are to be met. It recommends that the United States put money into the health-care delivery systems of the 15 countries and develop a more comprehensive set of policies that deal with the factors and conditions that allow HIV to spread.

Publisher: Milbank Memorial Fund, 645 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022; (212) 355-8400; mmf@milbank.org; http://www.milbank.org; 33 pages; available free for download on the Council on Foreign Relations’ and Milban.