U.S. HIV/AIDS Policy & the Fight Against Tuberculosis

An Advocacy Case Study

In 2003, the U.S. launched a new response to HIV/AIDS abroad called The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). PEPFAR was the largest commitment in history by any individual nation to combat a single disease. While it signaled what would become an enormous achievement, at the outset, the plan failed to confront the number one infectious killer of people with HIV/AIDS: tuberculosis (TB).

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