Fact Sheet
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
July 5, 2002


Fact Sheet: US Support for the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

United States Government Support For The Fight Against HIV/AIDS

At the end of 2001, an estimated 40 million people were living with HIV
/AIDS, the overwhelming majority in the developing world. The United
States is strongly committed to working with the international
community to save lives by preventing new infections, helping people
already infected with HIV/AIDS, and contributing to the search for a
cure.

I. Overall U.S. Government Assistance

* The Bush Administration has requested a total of $1.117 billion in
Fiscal Year 2003 (including $200 million for the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria) for U.S. international
spending to combat HIV/AIDS. This is a 13.1% increase over FY02
($988 million) and a 53.9% increase over FY01 ($726 million).

* The President has announced a new $500 million International Mother
and Child HIV Prevention Initiative that seeks to prevent the
transmission of HIV/AIDS from mothers to infants and improve health
care delivery in Africa and the Caribbean. The Administration is
presently working with Congress to direct $200 million this fiscal
year to the initiative, and will request an additional $300 million
in the FY 04 budget.

* U.S. bilateral international assistance for HIV/AIDS programs is
channeled mostly through the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
and Departments of Defense (DOD) and Labor (DOL).

II. Budgets By Agency/Department:

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID):

* In FY03, the HIV/AIDS budget of USAID will reach $540 million, a
24% increase over the FY02 budget of $435 million.
* USAID s HIV/AIDS strategy comprises six components: prevention;
care, treatment and support; working with children affected by
AIDS; surveillance; encouraging other donor countries and
organizations; and engaging national leaders.
* USAID resources for field programs will rise to $389 million in
FY02. This amount is twice what was spent in FY01 and represents
78% of USAID s FY02 budget for HIV/AIDS programs. The vast majority
of USAID's HIV/AIDS field assistance goes to non-governmental
organizations that have direct connections to the poorest of the
poor and those most vulnerable to infection.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS):

* In FY02, HHS will spend a total of $343 million on bilateral
international HIV/AIDS programs, including research, surveillance,
interventions and evaluation. Of that total, the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) will spend $155 million and the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) and will spend $188 million on research.
In FY03, the total amount for HHS is expected to increase to $377
million including $155 million for CDC and $222 million for NIH.
* The elements of CDC's Global AIDS Program (GAP) are primary
prevention; surveillance and infrastructure development; and care,
support, and treatment.

Departments of Defense and Labor:

* The Department of Labor focuses on targeting the workplace for
prevention education and strengthening the response to HIV/AIDS by
providing technical assistance to government, employees and labor
leaders. These projects take place in 17 countries.
* The Department of Defense (DOD) works with African militaries on
HIV/AIDS education programs.

III. U.S. Government Support for Research

Research and development programs have direct benefits for the
international community in the form of new drugs and other medical and
scientific advances. In FY02, the U.S. will spend $2.62 billion on HIV/
AIDS research. For FY03, this amount is expected to increase by 9.3% to
$2.86 billion.

* HHS is the largest public sector investor in HIV/AIDS research in
the world. In FY02, NIH will spend its $188 million international
HIV/AIDS budget on research outside the U.S. The CDC will spend
approximately 7% of its HIV/AIDS budget on international HIV/AIDS
research in and FY02.
* The DOD runs a Military HIV Prevention and Treatment Research
program to research HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment protocols.
This includes extensive vaccine research.
* In FY01 and FY02, USAID has spent almost 6% of its HIV/AIDS budget
on vaccine research and development of microbicides.

IV. U.S. Contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis
and Malaria

The U.S. is an active participant in and supporter of the newly
established Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The
U.S. has made the largest pledge, $500 million, to the Fund: $100
million in the FY01 budget, $200 million in FY02 budget and $200
million requested in the President s proposed FY03 budget. Of the
nearly $2.1 billion pledged to the Fund to date, $700 to $800 million
is expected to be available for disbursement this year. Of this $700 to
$800 million, the U.S. is expected to contribute $300 million.

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