Background
In 2003, President George W. Bush directed the Secretary of State to launch the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This was the U.S. Government’s 10-year program to treat at least 3 million HIV-infected people, prevent 12 million new infections, care for 12 million people affected by HIV/AIDS, and support training of at least 140,000 new health care workers in areas most heavily impacted by HIV/AIDS. PEPFAR is the largest commitment ever by a single nation toward an international health initiative.

Our Role
PRO-telligent, since inception of PEPFAR, has supported the planning, development and staffing of the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (S/GAC), and serves as the first point-of-contact for all administrative matters relating to the S/GAC office.

As the program developed, PRO-telligent provided Management Support Services to the GAC Planning Task Force. From the beginning, PRO-telligent has been on the ground handling administrative and logistical details, recruiting core staff members, setting up procurement mechanisms, as well as developing and overseeing the execution of the PEPFAR program budget. Essential personnel were quickly brought onboard to implement the massive global health initiative, with expertise ranging from physicians, public health experts, technicians, project managers, administrators, and office support staff.

Today, PRO-telligent personnel at S/GAC routinely deploy to HIV/AIDS-affected countries around the world which have included:

Iraq; Jordon; Kuwait; Lebanon; Libya; Mexico; Mongolia; Montenegro; Pakistan; Palestine; Romania; Serbia; Spain; Sudan; Taiwan and Yemen.

Facilitating interagency collaboration is a key feature of the services PRO-telligent provides at S/GAC. PRO-telligent collaborates closely with PEPFAR’s interagency counterparts, often working side-by-side in the field with U.S.G. personnel, providing direct service to those in need through humanitarian missions in HIV/AIDS-affected nations around the world.

In addition, PRO-telligent provides key communications and public affairs support – e.g., arranging, coordinating and maintaining records of all media events; supervising video, audio and photo shoots and interviews; and writing speeches, testimony, talking points and related materials for the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and other key PEPFAR spokespersons.