Mead Over says the United States has been a leader in the fight against the global AIDS epidemic, spending billions of dollars through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to help poor countries prevent and treat the disease. Six million people now rely on US assistance to pay for AIDS medicines that keep them alive each day. Over says that this effort could be more effective—and the money better spent—if PEPFAR releases the reams of data it routinely collects so that researchers, US policymakers and country recipients could use it to make better-informed decisions.
