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Ambitious goals call for bold action. Ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 is one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (ow.ly/YBOse), and for good reason: AIDS is now the leading cause of death among adolescents (ages 10-19) in Africa and the second most common cause of death among adolescents globally. PEPFAR is rising to the challenge thanks to the bold targets set by President Obama last September at the U.N. General Assembly (ow.ly/YBONp). By 2017, working jointly with partner countries; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and the private sector (#SDG17), PEPFAR will • support 12.9 million people on life-saving anti-retroviral treatment – nearly doubling the number of people on treatment from 2013 to 2017 #SDG3 • provide 13 million male circumcisions for HIV prevention #SDG3 • reduce HIV incidence by 40 percent among adolescent girls and young women within the highest-burdened areas of 10 sub-Saharan African countries #SDG3 #SDG5
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"As we celebrate International Women’s Day, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief remains deeply committed to advancing gender equality, including through our DREAMS Partnership, which supports young women and girls to be Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-Free, Mentored, and Safe..."

Read the entire International Women's Day blog by Ambassador Deborah L. Birx, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy here: http://ow.ly/kg9x30nYCFz

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Supporting Millions of Girls, One Dream at a Time
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) remains deeply committed to advancing gender equality, including through our DREAMS Partnership, which supports young women and girls to be Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-Free, Mentore...

A new PEPFAR report released today highlights that, in the past year, new HIV diagnoses among adolescent girls and young women continued to decline in 85% of the highest HIV burden communities/districts that are implementing DREAMS. In addition, eight of the DREAMS-supported districts that had less than a 25% decline of new HIV diagnoses among adolescent girls and young women in 2017 had a greater than 25% decline in 2018 – showing marked success. These reductions are particularly critical as, in 2017, three in four new infections in sub-Saharan Africa occurred among girls ages 15-19. Read it here: https://www.pepfar.gov/documents/organization/287807.pdf

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