PEPFAR’s role has been instrumental to accelerating global uptake of PrEP to date. In 2023, four countries started providing PrEP for the first time, and seven countries exceeded 70,000 new PrEP initiations, most of which are attributable to PEPFAR. This lifesaving, uniquely effective, program must see continued full funding and a 5-year reauthorization to carry on this work and help to put the world on track to control the epidemic.

Excerpted from PxWire Volume 13, Issue 4.