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How To Save Twenty Million Lives, with Dr. Mark Dybul

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Twenty years ago, the U.S. launched the largest, most successful global health initiative to ever address a single disease. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is credited with saving at least 20 million lives. New York Times columnist Nick Kristof recently called PEPFAR “the single best policy of any president in my lifetime.” Kristof said he knew the initiative was going well when he met coffin makers in Lesotho and Malawi whose once-thriving businesses were going bust. By early 2002, HIV/AIDS was devastating sub-Saharan Africa. Josh Bolten, then-Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, assembled a team to investigate how a U.S.-led fund could deploy its resources to stop the epidemic. The team, which included our guest today, Dr. Mark Dybul, began by focusing on reducing mother-to-child transmission, but expanded to provide antiretroviral therapy to vast swathes of Africa. Dybul later served as the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, leading PEPFAR from 2006 until the end of

How to Save Twenty Million Lives "We might have given the White House more confidence than was valid" Santi Ruiz Aug 30, 2023 54 8 13 Share Article voiceover 0:00 -1:08:36 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Twenty years ago, the U.S. launched the largest, most successful global health initiative to ever address a single disease. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is credited with saving at least 20 million lives. New York Times columnist Nick Kristof recently called PEPFAR “the single best policy of any president in my lifetime.” Kristof said

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