Under the road map drawn up by the President’s Emergency Plan For Aids Relief (Pepfar), the US will:
• Work towards the elimination of new HIV infections in children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive.
• Increase its coverage of HIV treatment to cut the number of deaths from Aids and boost HIV prevention, including antiretroviral drugs. Obama has set a goal of treating some six million people with such drugs by the end of 2013.
• Increase the numbers of men that get circumcisions. By the end of fiscal year 2013, Pepfar aims to have supported such operations for some 4.7 million men in eastern and southern Africa.
• Step up access to testing and counselling, as well as to condoms and other prevention methods. (AFP)