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This year, Congress will consider reauthorization of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This Policy Watch provides fast facts about the program and top issues related to its authorization and funding.
This analysis assesses the association between PEPFAR investments and several economic and educational outcomes. It finds that the program was associated with a significant increase in the GDP growth rate per capita and a decrease in the share of girls and boys of primary school age who were not in school.
This analysis provides an initial look at how PEPFAR is currently defining and approaching sustained epidemic control at the country level.
This report provides an analysis of donor government funding to address the HIV response in low- and middle-income countries in 2021, the latest year available, as well as trends over time. It includes both bilateral funding from donors and their multilateral contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), UNITAID, and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
This issue brief assesses how the HIV policy landscapes in PEPFAR countries compare to international standards and recommendations. Additionally, we look at the HIV policy landscapes in PEPFAR countries as compared to peer countries. These comparisons are done at the overall, category, and policy indicator level.
The COVID-19 has exacted a significant toll on the global economy. This new analysis looks at the economic impacts in PEPFAR countries finding that these countries generally fared worse than their economic and regional peers. In addition, the projected economic growth in these countries remains below pre-pandemic levels.
This brief examines abortion laws in countries that received certain U.S. foreign assistance to better understand the implications of the Helms Amendment (which prohibits the use of foreign assistance to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortion) for abortion access globally.
This primer provides an overview of congressional engagement in global health. It examines the structure of Congress and its role and key activities in global health. It then illustrates these by examining two global health examples: the creation and evolution of PEPFAR and the 2014/2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
A new KFF analysis finds the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program was associated with large declines in mortality in PEPFAR recipient countries since its creation in 2003.
As the PEPFAR program approaches its two-decade mark, this new analysis finds the program was associated with large declines in mortality in PEPFAR recipient countries since its creation in 2003, suggesting that future investments will continue to yield significant health impacts.
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