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San Francisco Chronicle - June 20, 2009
Jim Doyle, Chronicle Staff Writer
Dr. Eric Goosby was appointed by President Obama in March to head the U.S. strategy for addressing HIV around the world, and will oversee the implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The ambassador-at-large post is based at the State Department.
Goosby has been instrumental in marshaling federal resources to fight the AIDS epidemic in the United States and abroad. He served previously in the Clinton administration as director of HIV/AIDS policy in the Department of Health and Human Services and as chief adviser to the president on HIV-related issues.
Since 2001, he has been chief executive officer and chief medical officer of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, an international affiliate of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
"What's unusual about Eric is that he already comes into the arena with a lot of global experience," said Mark Cloutier, who heads the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. "He helped to write the national AIDS plans in Rwanda, South Africa and the Bahamas. He has been very involved for the past three years in China, helping the government to develop a system for the identification of people who are HIV positive and to develop an effective treatment strategy."
Goosby, a professor of clinical medicine at UCSF, has more than 25 years of experience treating HIV/AIDS. As a young intern at San Francisco General Hospital, he was among the first physicians to see AIDS begin to take its devastating toll on the city.
He was named the first director of the Ryan White AIDS Care Program in 1991, overseeing the distribution of federal funds and the planning of services in AIDS centers around the United States.
"In many places in sub-Saharan Africa, southeast Asia, and eastern Europe, the epidemic is growing," Cloutier said. "Eric has a special depth of knowledge about working with the populations most at risk."
E-mail Jim Doyle at jdoyle@sfchronicle.com.
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