December 14, 2009

AIDS and Aid: Rethinking PEPFAR

Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Global Development, Global Health Policy, Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Tags: HIV/AIDS, Nandini Oomman, PEPFAR

This week on the Global Prosperity Wonkcast, I’m joined by Nandini Oomman, director of the Center’s HIV/AIDS Monitor. Our conversation focuses on the new 5-year strategy laid out earlier this month by Ambassador Eric Goosby, the new U.S. global AIDS coordinator and head of PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief).

Nandini praises the evidence-based framework PEPFAR has laid out and its move towards much greater openness and transparency. She stresses that the challenge ahead will be in designing concrete plans that implement the strategy effectively and measure its impacts.

Nandini brings to the table a wealth of experience, dating back to the late 1980s, when she worked on the front lines of the battle against HIV/AIDS in India. On the Wonkcast, she tells me how she moved from educating sex workers in Mumbai about HIV to studying global HIV/AIDS policy. That journey started when her organization hosted a US Congressman, who wanted to see the realities of AIDS & sex work in India up close. Read More…

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