PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief)
institutionIntelligence & Surveillance
A program sold as emergency relief for AIDS quietly built the systems used to watch for outbreaks.
Who they are
PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, launched by the US in 2003 and first mentioned by George W Bush in his State of the Union address that year.
What they do
The record calls it a surveillance and laboratory builder.
How it works
PEPFAR was launched in 2003 and immediately set out to construct surveillance systems and laboratories. It worked with CDC, ministries of health, and the company Becton, Dickinson and Company through the 'Labs for Life' initiative to improve laboratory systems in Africa and Asia. It also uses a One Health approach and mixes in the Global Health Security Agenda. Its work is funded through the CDC under a cooperative agreement.
Why it matters
It shows how a program presented as emergency relief also builds the infrastructure for disease surveillance.
The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "To correct this issue, the US launched PEPFAR in 2003, who immediately set out to construct surveillance systems, and laboratories." It is presented publicly as: "The ‘ President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ‘ - or ‘ PEPFAR ’ - was first mentioned by George W Bush in his State of the Union address in 2003 ." Documents named in the corpus: State of the Union address; 2005 ‘ PEPFAR - First Annual Report to Congress ’; MMWR; BMJ. Cross-sourced to globalhealthsecurity.net, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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Global Fundpaired USG and multilateral responses to HIV — does not establish: Any shared governance or funding mechanism between PEPFAR and the Global Fund
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Global Health Security AgendaPEPFAR uses One Health approach and mixes in GHSA [BMJ, August 2023, August 2023] — does not establish: It does not establish a binding instrument or command re
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