Strengthening U.S. Leadership on HIV/AIDS

Sens. Bill Frist and Russell Feingold co-chaired a full session of the CSIS Task Force on HIV/AIDS on February 12. Keynote speakers included U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Randall Tobias and Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky. Participants discussed strengthening the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and explored a strategy for slowing the spread of the disease in second wave states. Webcast and transcript provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation

The session featured a trip report from a CSIS delegation to India, which concludes that the country's epidemic has started to affect large parts of the general population. The report states that India's response to its general outbreak will provide lessons to other second wave countries grappling with the disease as well as to neighboring countries in South Asia.