Support Five Year PEPFAR Reauthorization

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is a landmark global health initiative originally launched by President George W. Bush in 2003 to address the world’s HIV crisis. Over the past 20 years, PEPFAR has received consistent bipartisan support across eleven U.S. Congresses and four Presidential administrations.

Since its inception, the program has invested over 110 million dollars in the global fight against HIV making it the largest commitment made by any nation to address a single disease in history. PEPFAR has saved tens of millions of lives, transformed the global health landscape and demonstrated the compassion and leadership of the American people.

Core to PEPFAR’s success has been its 5-year funding cycle. The long-term funding PEPFAR has historically provided has enabled organizations like World Relief, its church partners and other faith-based organizations to address the HIV epidemic by building longstanding trust and relationships at the most local levels. It has provided the necessary investments to build up resilient health systems able to combat the spread of HIV as well as other infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, Ebola, mpox and other current and future health challenges faced by the global community.

For over 25 years, World Relief has partnered with the church in boldly addressing the HIV crisis around the world. We have seen firsthand PEPFAR’s impact on vulnerable communities throughout the world. But even with all the progress that has been made since its inception, PEPFAR is still needed to continue caring for the millions of individuals and their communities affected by the HIV epidemic.

An end to HIV as a public health emergency by 2030 is possible, but only through continued long-term investments in successful programs like PEPFAR. Ask your members of Congress to stay the course and reaffirm the U.S.’ global commitment to end HIV as a public health threat by reauthorizing PEPFAR for 5 years.