PEPFAR: A Triumph of Medical Diplomacy

摘要

Many Americans are unfamiliar with the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and would be surprised to learn how successful it has been, according to Harold Varmus, director of the National Cancer Institute. Writing in the AAAS quarterly Science & Diplomacy, Varmus noted that the program had supplied an estimated 5 million patients in the developing world with antiretroviral drugs by 2012-up from 1.7 million in 2008-while protecting nearly 1 million infants from maternally transmitted HIV and testing nearly 50 million people for infection.