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Anti-homosexual legislation and HIV-related stigma in African nations: what has been the role of PEPFAR? [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2017
Background: Gay men and other men who have sex with men are disproportionately burdened by HIV infection. Laws that penalize same-sex intercourse contribute to a cycle of stigma, homonegativity and discrimination.
Amy Hagopian, Deepa Rao, Aaron Katz, Sallie Sanford, Scott Barnhart   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Supporting the massive scale-up of antiretroviral therapy: the evolution of PEPFAR-supported treatment facilities in South Africa, 2005-2009 [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2012
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 ...
Larson Elysia, O'Bra Heidi, Brown JW, Mbengashe Thobile, Klausner Jeffrey D   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Prioritizing Mental Health within HIV and Tuberculosis Services in PEPFAR

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Underprioritization of mental health is a global problem and threatens the decades-long progress of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program.
Rena Fukunaga, Paul Pierre, John K. Williams, Rebeca Briceno-Robaugh, Sam Kalibala, Meaghan Peterson, Patrick K. Moonan   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Calculating indirect costs from international PEPFAR implementing partners. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:UNAIDS estimates global HIV investment needs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) at $26 billion per year in 2020. Yet international financing for HIV programs has stagnated amidst despite the increasing number of people requiring and ...
Brian Honermann, Alana Sharp, Jennifer Sherwood, Pratima Kshetry, Austin Jones, Richael O'Hagan, Laura Lazar, Christina Chandra, Topher Hoffmann, Greg Millett   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The impact of PEPFAR transition on HIV service delivery at health facilities in Uganda.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundSince 2004, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has played a large role in Uganda's HIV/AIDS response. To better target resources to high burden regions and facilities, PEPFAR planned to withdraw from 29% of previously ...
Jess Alan Wilhelm, Mary Qiu, Ligia Paina, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Moses Mukuru, Freddie Ssengooba, Sara Bennett   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Impact of the United States Foreign Aid Freeze on HIV Service Delivery in PEPFAR-Supported Countries: A Facility-Level Analysis of 2024-2025 Programme Data. [PDF]

J Int AIDS Soc
ABSTRACT Introduction On 24 January 2025, the U.S. government issued a stop‐work order freezing foreign assistance, including support for the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), although a limited waiver for selected “life‐saving” interventions was subsequently granted.
Honermann B, Grimsrud A, Lankiewicz E, Sherwood J, Millett G.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Governance and transparency at PEPFAR [PDF]

The Lancet Global Health, 2014
The US President\u27s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been one of the most effective foreign aid programmes in history. It reached 6·7 million people with antiretroviral therapy in 2013,1and has also strengthened country health systems ...
Matthew M Kavanagh, Brook K Baker
doaj   +4 more sources

Impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on African Public Health Systems. [PDF]

Public Health Chall
ABSTRACT The enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) in July 2025 represents a fundamental shift in United States global health financing, with significant implications for African public health systems. For more than three decades, US development assistance for health particularly through initiatives such as the President's Emergency Plan ...
Edward M, Musa J, Stephen M, Bundu SS, Alex CN, Owoicho AW, Mbwana N.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Addressing advanced HIV disease and mortality in global HIV programming

AIDS Research and Therapy, 2020
Introduction The US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was launched to increase access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) among people living with HIV (PLHIV) and to prevent new HIV infections globally. As new infections have decreased in
Andrew T. Boyd, Ikwo Oboho, Heather Paulin, Hammad Ali, Catherine Godfrey, Anand Date, J. Sean Cavanaugh   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ghana’s HIV epidemic and PEPFAR’s contribution towards epidemic control [PDF]

Ghana Medical Journal, 2019
Background: The aim of this review was to summarize the data on HIV/AIDS epidemiology and affected populations in Ghana and to describe the United States President’s Emergency Plan for Emergency Relief’s (PEPFAR) response to the epidemic.
Hammad Ali, Frank Amoyaw, Dan Baden, Lizette Durand, Megan Bronson, Andrea Kim, Yoran Grant-Greene, Rubina Imtiaz, Mahesh Swaminathan   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source