Care

“The Emergency Plan is the single largest international initiative by any country for any disease, and we're making progress each step along the way; one more orphan, one more patient is taken care of or treated, and one more person can live with the disease.”

- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Remarks at the Swearing-in of the
U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
October 10, 2006

In addition to efforts to diagnose and treat children infected with HIV, PEPFAR supports host nations' wide-ranging programs to meet the needs of orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) affected by the pandemic. As of September 30, 2006, PEPFAR supported care for approximately two million OVCs (in addition to care for nearly 2.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS).

Along with its OVC programs, PEPFAR has scaled up its support for national efforts to provide high-quality care for opportunistic infections related to HIV/AIDS. Especially important in this area is care for HIV/tuberculosis (TB) co-infection, a leading cause of death among HIV-positive people in the developing world. From fiscal year 2005 to fiscal year 2006, PEPFAR nearly doubled funding for HIV/TB, supporting TB treatment for 301,600 HIV-infected patients in fiscal year 2006.

Another key improvement in fiscal year 2006 was the development and dissemination of “preventive care packages” for children and adults living with HIV. These packages can help to keep HIV-positive persons healthy and delay the need for treatment, and were crafted to be adapted to local circumstances.

Five-Year Goal in the 15 Focus Countries:

• Support care for 10 million people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, including orphans and vulnerable children.

• Supported care for nearly 6.6 million, including care for more than 2.7 million orphans and vulnerable children
• Supported over 33 million counseling and testing sessions to date for men, women and children.

• Supported training or retraining of approximately 143,000 individuals to care for orphans and vulnerable children in fiscal year 2006.
• Supported training or retraining of nearly 94,000 individuals to care for people living with HIV/AIDS at 8,019 service sites.
• Supported training or retraining of over 66,000 individuals to provide counseling and testing at over 11,300 service sites through prevention of mother-to-child transmission and other counseling and testing activities.