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17 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 433 (2003)
The New U.S. AIDS Policy in Africa

handle is hein.journals/emint17 and id is 443 raw text is: THE NEW U.S. AIDS POLICY IN AFRICA Dr. E. Anne Peterson* Politics and policy are big issues. They are everyday issues for me. I will touch on a few of them but I am more than happy to ask questions because it is part of how we go forward from the numbers, from the epidemiology to making real our response to HIV and making real our impact. In the last five years I have spent almost as much time dealing with legal issues. Not just politics and policy as I have with public health issues. It is woven into all that we do and those policies that often need legal resolution or at least underpinnings are very important. Prior to coming to USAID I was State Health Commissioner in Virginia, and saw similar things. I saw my very first case of HIV in Zaire in 1982. I saw my second case in Long Island, New York in 1982. My life since then has been back and forth between international health and domestic health, learning the issues in both places and bringing those lessons learned back and forth. My American colleagues don't always like to hear that there are lessons to be learned in Africa that can apply to the United States, but that is the case. These lessons can go in both directions. I know that the focus of our time in the next two days is how do we take some of these successes from the United States and bring them to Africa where they need it so much and so strongly. I am hoping to cover some of those issues as we go forward. As Dean Curran said, USAID is an agency that is an implementing agency. We are an arm of the U.S. government that does foreign aid and development. We're supposedly independent of the State Department but my boss reports directly to Colin Powell. We do have a little * U.S. Agency for International Development, Dr. Peterson is Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Before coming to USAID, Dr. Peterson served for three years as Commissioner of Health for the State of Virginia. She has served as a consultant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization in Haiti and Brazil and spent almost six years in sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya and Zimbabwe) doing community development, public health training and AIDS prevention, as well as performing U.S.-based research in chronic disease prevention, outbreak investigations and food safety.

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