Healers Abroad
Subtitle: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS
Contributors: Fitzhugh Mullan (Editor); Claire Panosian (Editor); Patricia Cuff (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: June 27, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780309096164
Subjects: AIDS: social aspects; Public health & preventive medicine; Medical; Medical / Nursing; USA; Health Care Delivery; Education & Training; Health Policy; AIDS (Disease); Government policy; Medical assistance, American; United States; World health
Description: In January 2003 President Bush announced the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which is directed at 15 countries that are home to half of the world's HIV-infected people. PEPFAR's "2-7-10" goals are to treat 2 million infected people with antiretroviral therapy, prevent 7 million new HIV infections, and care for 10 million people who are infected with HIV or affected by it. This comprehensive, five-year strategy is part of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, which Congress passed in 2003. Among other measures, the legislation calls for a pilot program to test how U.S. health care professionals and others with technical expertise could help meet the "2-7-10" goals through public service abroad. The federal Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator asked the Institute of Medicine to study options for placing such workers in the 15 focus countries.