It has been said that about ten years ago, AIDS was a death sentence. No proper treatments and advances were there to cure people suffering with AIDS. Many people lost their lives, leaving their children orphans along with threatening the economic development of the country.

Patrick H Gaspard, the US Ambassador to SA, said that AIDS was threatening the security of people across the world, especially in South Africa. He said that there is need to take some extraordinary measures to have control on the spread of this disease. But, now the time has changed and various equipments and techniques have been developed that helps in early diagnosing and curing the disease.

In 2003, the US government has launched the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR). After the start of this program there seems to have 33% decline in the number of HIV infected persons and 32% decline in AIDS deaths. Because of the development of programs like PEPFAR in combination with scientific advances, world is heading towards AIDS free generation.

The US government has already invested R42 billion in South Africa in past ten years to provide treatment and prevention to HIV and AIDS infected people. They had funded the SA government to improve the health system in that country.