Collective Action: Sustain and Accelerate HIV Progress

(Global Health Security and Diplomacy) – World AIDS Day is commemorated every year on Dec. 1, since 1988, to honor those we have lost and to recommit ourselves to ending the pandemic and caring for all those impacted by it.Our theme this year is “Collective Action: Sustain and Accelerate HIV Progress,” which reminds us we cannot let up on countering an infectious disease that has taken the lives of 42 million people – and for which there is no vaccine or cure. The largest collective action by a country to counter a single disease has been the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief – known as PEPFAR, which I am proud to lead.& Related Stories PEPFAR continues to deepen partnerships across civil society, faith-based organizations, partner governments, and the private sector who are all committed to sustaining the gains we have made in the HIV response, accelerating progress toward ending HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, and ensuring the response in 2030 and beyond is led and delivered by governments or domestic entities in our partner countries.Since PEPFAR’s creation in 2003, agencies across the U.S. government and our partners around the world have dramatically altered the...