Updates/Latest News PEPFAR Reauthorization Passes House Committee by Voice Vote The House Committee on Foreign Affairs announced a bipartisan compromise bill to reauthorize the President’s Emergency Plan to Fight AIDS (PEPFAR).  This compromise bill will replace the one that the late, great Congressmember Tom Lantos originally proposed.  The compromise, struck by Committee Chair Berman, Ranking Member Ross-Lehtinen and the White House, is a good starting place to ensure that the United States can do it’s fair share to fight global AIDS, but as Committee Chair Berman says, “compromises mean that we don’t get all of what we want” and in this case, all of what is needed. 200 groups sign on to support $50-59 billion for global AIDS In a letter to members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, 200 US-based and international groups are calling for support for $50-59 billion for global AIDS, TB and Malaria, evidence-based HIV prevention programs, a plan to treat 1/3 of people with HIV in clinical need, and funding to address the shortage of healthcare workers. To add your organization to the growing list of endorsers, click     here.   Guttmacher Institute refutes false claims that PEPFAR bill would fund abortion in Africa Right wing extremists are making misleading facts about PEPFAR funding abortions in Africa, and are putting PEPFAR reauthorization at risk. Click here to learn the facts about what's   really in the bill regarding family planning and HIV prevention.