27 November 2009

Ambassador Goosby Comments on PEPFAR’s Expansion Activities

Podcast with U.S. global AIDS coordinator for PEPFAR

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Ambassador Eric Goosby:

PEPFAR is now in 31 countries. It started with originally 15 — the so-called focus countries. They were the most heavily-hit countries on the planet, and that’s where PEPFAR began. The decision to move into other countries has been based on need and ability to respond. Looking at countries that are earlier in their epidemic’s evolution. Those are countries that are some of the other African countries, Southeast Asian countries, Eastern European countries. So much of PEPFAR’s attention in the country expansion has been looking to try to prevent the saturation of high-risk behaving populations.