Kaiser Family Foundation Releases Policy Brief on ‘Critical Challenges’ of HIV/AIDS Epidemic
The Kaiser Family Foundation on Friday released a policy brief, titled "Critical Policy Challenges in the Third Decade of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic," that highlights the United States' national and international challenges to and roles in addressing the pandemic. The brief, developed as part of the KFF and Ford Foundation joint initiative "AIDS at 20: A National Policy Initiative," examines several domestic and global challenges, including the following:
- Reducing the number of new U.S. HIV infections;
- Increasing the number of HIV-positive people who receive care;
- Paying for HIV/AIDS drugs and confronting rising drug costs;
- Addressing why HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minorities;
- Stimulating the research and development of new treatments and vaccines;
- Maintaining a domestic response to the epidemic while addressing the international situation;
- Establishing appropriate forms and amounts of U.S. foreign aid;
- Balancing the importance of prevention, treatment, research and infrastructure development;
- Working with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to make it effective and responsive;
- Promoting HIV/AIDS treatment access in developing countries while balancing U.S. intellectual property interests (Kaiser Family Foundation, "Critical Policy Challenges in the Third Decade of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic," January 2002).