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Annals of Internal Medicine Letters COMMENTS AND RESPONSES TO THE EDITOR: Bendavid and Bhattacharya (1) reported on PEPFAR and its positive effects on HIV-related prevalence and AIDS mortality in certain sub-Saharan African countries since its implementation in 2003. The authors compared trends in HIV prev- Evaluating Outcomes of the President’s Emergency Plan for alence (reported as the number of persons living with HIV infection) AIDS Relief in Africa and AIDS mortality (reported as number of deaths) before and after the initiation of PEPFAR activities in 12 focus countries and 29 TO THE EDITOR: I applaud Bendavid and Bhattacharya (1) for under- control counties that had a generalized HIV epidemic in 1997 to taking a much-needed quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of 2002 and 2004 to 2007. On the basis of 4 years of PEPFAR activity, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the larg- AIDS mortality from 2004 to 2007 decreased the most in focus est international health initiative dedicated to a single disease. countries compared with control countries (10.5 percentage points Although it is important to recognize PEPFAR’s success in de-