PEPFAR

Recognizing the global HIV/AIDS pandemic as one of the greatest health challenges of our time, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was launched in 2003 — the largest international public health initiative aimed at a single disease that any nation has ever undertaken. Working in partnership with host nations, over ten years PEPFAR plans to support treatment for at least 3 million people; prevention of 12 million new infections; and care for 12 million people, including 5 million orphans and vulnerable children. To meet these goals, PEPFAR will support training of at least 140,000 new health care workers in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care.

USAID 

In 2003, President George W. Bush announced the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year, $15 billion U.S. Government initiative that aims to provide treatment to at least two million HIV-infected individuals, prevent seven million new HIV infections, and provide care and support to 10 million people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, including orphans and vulnerable children. To help attain these goals, the U.S. Government is rapidly expanding its programs and engaging new partners in 15 focus countries, including Ethiopia. Under the Emergency Plan, Ethiopia received more than $48 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2004, more than $83.7 million in FY 2005, approximately $123 million in FY 2006, and is providing $241.8 million in FY 2007 to support comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care programs.

CDC

As a part of its overall public health mission, CDC provides leadership in helping control the HIV/AIDS epidemic by working with community, state, national, and international partners in surveillance, research, and prevention and evaluation activities. These activities are critically important, because CDC estimates that over one million Americans are living with HIV, and 24 to 27% of these people are unaware of their HIV infection. 

UNAIDS

Representatives from more than 75 countries across Africa and the European Union convened over the weekend in Lisbon, Portugal to discuss the important relationship between the continents. The summit was the first held between the heads of government since they met in Cairo in 2000.

In 2005, there were close to five million new HIV infections worldwide, 3 200 000 of these in sub-Saharan Africa alone. In the same year, three million people died of AIDS-related diseases; more than half a million (570 000) were children. Today the total number of people living with HIV stands at 40.3 million, double the number (19.9 million) in 1995. Despite progress made in a small but growing number of countries, the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip global efforts to contain it.  HIV and AIDS Statistics  2003  and 2005

WHO

As the directing and coordinating authority on international health, the World Health Organization (WHO) takes the lead within the UN system in the global health sector response to HIV/AIDS. The HIV/AIDS Department provides evidence-based, technical support to WHO Member States to help them scale up treatment , care and prevention services as well as drugs and diagnostics supply to ensure a comprehensive and sustainable response to HIV/AIDS.

UNICEF

The greatest health risk facing young people today is their lack of information about the risks of contracting HIV/AIDS. That's why fighting HIV/AIDS is a high priority in UNICEF's plan of action for protecting the world's children. Whatever it takes to save a child

UNIVERSITIES

 1. Tulane University (TUTAPE)

 2. Colombia University (ICAP)

 3. John HopKins University (JHU-Tsehai) 

 4. University of Calforinia & San Diago  (UCSD)

 5. I-Tech

 6. JEPIEGO

other partners

    Intra-Health

    MSF/RPM+

     FHI

   CRDA