John N Nkengasong is an Ambassador-at-Large and serves as the U.S. Department of State’s U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Senior Bureau Official for Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD). He oversees the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy, which serves as the department’s coordinating body for work on strengthening global health security to prevent, detect and respond to infectious diseases, including HIV and AIDS. The department also elevates and integrates global health security as a core component of U.S. national security and foreign policy. GHSD is home to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which the Ambassador also oversees. PEPFAR is the largest commitment by any nation to address a single disease in history and has prevented millions of HIV acquisitions, saved more than 25 million lives, and changed the course of the HIV pandemic. Under his leadership, the programme is laser focused on ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030.
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