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The U.S. global AIDS initiative has provided therapy and brought testing and counseling to millions around the world. Now the challenge is to move from emergency to sustained efforts, the Institute of Medicine said Friday.

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    March 30, 2007, 11:46 a.m.

    Launched three years ago, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is active in 120 countries, with a concentrated focus on 15, where it seeks to have an impact at the national level, the institute said.

    In those focus countries, 800,000 people have received AIDS drugs through the program, another 19 million got testing and counseling, and therapy was able to block transmission of the disease from mother to infant in an estimated 100,000 cases, the report said.

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