On Wednesday, April 18, 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Global Health Policy Center co-hosted a public discussion on the current state of financing for the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The event also included the launch of the latest global health financing analysis by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). IHME’s latest analysis features a special focus on the past 20 years of global spending on HIV/AIDS across 188 countries, raising questions about the current state of HIV/AIDS financing amidst the present policy landscape.

Sara M. Allinder, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow at the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, provided opening remarks. Christopher J.L. Murray, Professor and Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, was the keynote speaker. J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, moderated a panel discussion featuring Dr. Murray, Jennifer Kates, Vice President and Director of Global Health and HIV Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Mark Dybul, Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Center for Global Health and Quality, Georgetown University Medical School.