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The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

The President believes the global community can - and - must - do more to halt the advance of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and that the United States should lead the world by example. Thus, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief will provide $15 billion (including almost $10 billion in new funds) over five years to turn the tide in the battle against HIV/AIDS. The PEPFAR focus countries are as follows: Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Vietnam was added as an additional focus country, the first Asian PEPFAR country, in June 2004.

A portion of the overall PEPFAR money for Vietnam is intended for the Department of Defense to utilize in an HIV/AIDS military to military bilateral program. Because of existing partnerships and successful collaboration in other multilateral HIV/AIDS initiatives between USPACOM/COE and the Vietnamese Department of Military Medicine, USPACOM has received the DOD portion of PEPFAR funding for Vietnam. As its executing agent, the COE Medical unit now orchestrates this extensive bilateral program as part of its regional HIV/AIDS initiatives.

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