PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-Free Generation -- A Fact
Sheet November 29, 2012 On November 8, 2011, Secretary Clinton
declared that, for the first time in history, the world is at
the point where an AIDS-free generation is in sight. And at the
July 2012 International AIDS Conference, the Secretary called on
the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to
produce a blueprint outlining how the United States will
contribute to reaching this goal. Secretary Clinton defined an
AIDS-free generation as one where virtually no children are born
with HIV; where, as these children become teenagers and adults,
they are at far lower risk of becoming infected than they would
be today; and where those who do acquire HIV have access to
treatment that helps prevent them from developing AIDS and
passing the virus on to others. Creating an AIDS-free generation
is an ambitious, but reachable, goal -- and now a policy
imperative of the United States. The PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating
an AIDS-Free Generation reflects