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In advance of World AIDS Day 2018, Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo will deliver keynote remarks at the PEPFAR Faith Communities and HIV Technical Summit at the Department of State at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, November 27, 2018. Watch the event live on www.state.gov.

The Secretary will announce the latest lifesaving results achieved under the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), including additional progress that is being made under the PEPFAR Strategy for Accelerating HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control (2017-2020). Visit www.pepfar.gov to learn more.

This year’s World Tuberculosis (TB) Day theme – “Reach the 3 Million: Reach, Treat, Cure Everyone” – represents a major principle that will help focus our collective effort around the world. In too many settings, TB is still the leading cause of death for people living with HIV/AIDS. Learn what PEPFAR is doing to reach, treat, and cure TB http://go.usa.gov/3rG5R

The fight to contain the Ebola outbreak and to help the affected countries is far from over. Visit www.usaid.gov/ebola to find out what you can do to help.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the scale-up of malaria control efforts between 2001 and 2013 resulted in some 4.3 million fewer malaria deaths than would otherwise have occurred. The impressive results are due in large part to programs like the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) that are focused on decreasing the malaria burden. Learn about the new President’s Malaria Initiative strategy for the year 2015 through 2020: http://go.usa.gov/3r73e

Tune into our Google+ Hangout on Wednesday at 9AM ET on “How Young People Are Transforming the Health World” with Special Adviser Zeenat Rahman and CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps Barbara Bush.

The Hangout will be broadcast live on the Department of State’s YouTube channel and Google+ page.

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40 percent of children in Cambodia might not reach their full potential due to a condition referred to as stunting.

— Ambassador David Lane discusses education and food security on DipNote

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PEPFAR: Ten Years of Saving Millions of Lives

At the time that PEPFAR was conceived of and then established during the George W. Bush administration, the world was witnessing first-hand the destruction of an entire generation of individuals in the prime years of their lives and the reversal of remarkable health and development gains, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and to a lesser extent in other developing nations. Rates of new HIV infections were rising rapidly, and hospitals, communities, and families were often too under-resourced and overwhelmed to cope with the enormity of this burden. At that time in 2003, despite the availability of life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART) in most countries in the developed world, in southern Africa and other regions of the developing world, an HIV diagnosis meant a virtual death sentence, since few had access to such drugs.

Today, as we mark the 10th anniversary of PEPFAR, the situation has changed dramatically. MORE

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Supporting Children Is Vital To Achieving an AIDS-Free Generation

Children stand depicting the ribbon, the symbol of AIDS, during a candlelight rally to mark World AIDS Orphans' Day organized in Gauhati, India, May 7, 2007. [AP File Photo]

About the Author: Ambassador Eric Goosby serves as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and leads the Office of Global Health Diplomacy.

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” – Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa

The impact of HIV and AIDS on children is devastating. To date, an estimated 16 million children have lost one or both parents due to AIDS, 90 percent of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. And despite dramatic advances in treatment this number is not yet declining . In addition, an estimated 3.4 million children under the age of 15 are living with HIV, and millions more children are made vulnerable due to chronically ill parents or the social and economic effects of living in communities with high HIV prevalence.

These numbers clearly demonstrate how vulnerable children are to the social, emotional, economic, and environmental effects that… more »

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World Health Day: Meeting the Challenges That Affect Us All

A child is administered polio vaccine in Kolkata, India, Jan. 20, 2013. [AP File Photo]

About the Author: Ambassador Eric Goosby serves as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and leads the Office of Global Health Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State.

As we recognize World Health Day today, we are reminded that disease knows no borders and that we share a common interest in global health concerns includingseeing a generation without AIDS, ending preventable child deaths, and building and strengthening sustainable health systems to meet the health challenges that affect us all. The U.S. government has been and will continue to be a leading contributor to achieve these goals, and the investment of the American people is having enormous impact.

We also know, that as the world reduces the burden of infectious disease and child deaths, new… more »

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World Tuberculosis Day: Confronting TB/HIV Co-Infection

A tuberculosis patient takes medicines at Directly Observed Treatment Short-course, run by non-government organization Navirman Samaj Vikas Kendra, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, Jan. 16, 2012. [AP File Photo]

About the Author: Ambassador Eric Goosby serves as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and leads the Office of Global Health Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State.

This Sunday, March 24, is World Tuberculosis (TB) Day. Around the world, countries will mark the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of the bacterium that causes TB. Since the 1980s, this day has also served as a rallying call to raise public awareness and recommit political will toward eliminating the disease.

Today, TB is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa-accounting for 1,000 lives lost each day. Given this enormous human toll, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) continues to address the deadly links between TB and HIV as a top policy and programmatic priority.

In November 2012,… more »

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