AHF Backs $300M Fund to Contain Future Infectious Disease Outbreaks

On Apr. 17, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) offered its backing for a special $300 million fund in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to contain and eradicate future emerging infectious disease epidemics.

“When an outbreak of an infectious disease occurs, time is of the essence. We learned a tragic lesson 30 years ago, when the American and international public health infrastructure reacted slowly to what became the AIDS pandemic,” Michael Weinstein, president of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, said.

The risk of the rapid spread infectious disease is an unfortunate reality that we can’t afford to ignore. Whether they are Ebola, Zika, H1N1, MERS, Yellow Fever, HIV, TB or Malaria, we have to have a well-funded rapid response strategy in place to react immediately.