WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will host a press teleconference on Thursday, July 22nd, at 1:00 PM Eastern (U.S.A.)/10:00 AM Pacific to urge the United States Congress to immediately pass the HIV/AIDS Saves Lives First Act of 2010. Introduced in the Senate Wednesday by Senator Tom Coburn, MD (R-OK), the bill seeks to save lives by making better use of existing resources for PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), the US’ successful global AIDS program. Solutions include making the delivery of lifesaving AIDS treatment the #1 priority of the program by increasing the treatment allocation to 75% of all funding; requiring more efficiency with a treatment allocation of $500 annually per patient; and, ensuring that the money goes to patients by limiting administrative overhead to 10% of total expenditures per grantee. The plan sets a five-year target to treat 5 million by 2013 — an increase of 2 million more than the current PEPFAR projected goal to treat 3 million by the end of 2010.
