Powerful conversation with a respected journalist covering HIV/Aids

Journalist John Donnelly,'s reporting on HIV/aids has shaped how the world understands global health and development. He traces the origins of PEPFAR—launched in 2003 as the largest commitment any nation has ever made to fight a single disease—and reminds us how many hundreds of millions of lives it has saved across Africa and beyond. Now, as PEPFAR is being dismantled,, Donnelly's perspective underscores what's at stake when a signature U.S. development program is allowed to die.