Goosby New Global AIDS Chief
FrontLines - September 2009
By Jessica DiRocco
 Dr. Eric Goosby is the new U.S. global AIDS coordinator.
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Dr. Eric Goosby was confirmed
June 23 as the global AIDS coordinator at the State Department and head of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
“We are looking at a period where PEPFAR has reached a point of maturity,” he said, “where it has scaled and engaged in many settings in such a way to save hundreds of thousands, and indeed, millions of lives.”
First authorized in 2003 with $15 billion, PEPFAR provided millions of people with HIV/AIDS care that they would otherwise
have lacked.
When PEPFAR’s five-year authorization ended last year, Congress voted to reauthorize the program for another five years at up to $48 billion to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Dr. Goosby has 25 years experience with HIV/AIDS. The medical doctor served as the first director of the Ryan White CARE Act at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was deputy director of the White House National AIDS Policy Office, and was director of HIV/AIDS Policy in HHS during the Clinton administration.
Since 2001, he has been chief executive officer and chief medical
officer of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation.
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