Publication

This policy brief presents the key facts and recommendations for an AIDS agenda for the next US president. According to the author, US spending on global AIDS is widely seen as a significant foreign policy and humanitarian success, however three bad options loom ahead: the indefinite increase of foreign assistance spending on an open-ended commitment, the elimination of half of other foreign aid programs, or withdrawal of the medicine that millions of people depend upon to stay alive. An alternative would be the implementation of a sustainable policy that concentrates on prevention in order to drastically cut new infections while sustaining the reduction in AIDS-related deaths.