Introducing www.PEPFAR.gov

The Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator is pleased to announce the launch of www.PEPFAR.gov - a new online resource for the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This website features comprehensive information on PEPFAR's work around the world. Two new features include a series of issue briefs and resources for World AIDS Day. Our new Issue Brief series provides an overview of each PEPFAR intervention area, examples of PEPFAR-supported work, information about results, and lists of key resources on each topic. Briefs are currently available on Adult Treatment, Gender, and HIV Counseling and Testing. The U.S. Government's World AIDS Day theme, The Promise of Partnerships, illustrates how local people around the world, in partnership with the American people, are achieving results in their own nations and communities. Information about activities both in the U.S. and abroad is updated frequently.

It's finally here! The HIV/AIDS Monitor team at CGD is delighted to learn (through the e-news release above) that the new website for PEPFAR was just launched, a few days before World AIDS Day! Looks much better and is easier to navigate than the old state department site. While most of the content is from the original site so far, the Issue Briefs give snapshots about what PEPFAR is up to, written for an interested but non-technical audience.

The website should grow into a much-bookmarked resource for those in the global health world. Given how many inquiries the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator get from a range of researchers, advocates, funding recipients and other interested parties, the new website is a welcome platform for future content, which we expect is in the works: How is the funding being allocated and used? What are the outputs and results? Who is benefiting and who is not? What are the major take-away lessons from PEPFAR's experiences, and how are those being applied as the initiative moves ahead? And what are the findings of the Institute of Medicine evaluation, requested by Congress?

Getting the facts and figures out there, along with information about the many successes (and challenges) of PEPFAR, is a key part of informing the American taxpayers - constituents whose backing is needed for the reauthorization of PEPFAR.