SFAF and the Global HIV Prevention Working Group

The Global HIV Prevention Working Group (PWG) is an international panel of more than 50 leading public health experts, clinicians, biomedical and behavioral researchers, advocates and people affected by HIV/AIDS, convened by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Dr. Judith Auerbach, the Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation is a member of the Global HIV Prevention Working Group.

On June 28, 2007, PWG issued a report called "Bringing HIV Prevention to Scale: A Global Priority" calling for a doubling of funding and better allocation of resources to avert 30 million new HIV infections by 2015.

The Working Group was launched in 2002 to inform global policy-making, program planning, and donor decisions on HIV prevention.

PWG issues periodic reports and fact sheets on key issues in HIV prevention science and policy, works to build consensus on evidence-based HIV prevention programming, advocates for a comprehensive international response to HIV/AIDS that integrates prevention, treatment and care and provides information and guidance to donors, media and policy makers.

For more information on PWG, visit globalhivprevention.org.