Charity Official to Lead Obama’s Global AIDS Effort

Eric Goosby, chief executive and chief medical officer at the nonprofit Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, has been tapped by President Obama to coordinate American efforts to fight the disease worldwide, Reuters reports.

If confirmed, Dr. Goosby will direct the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, charged with disbursing billions of dollars allocated by Congress for overseas AIDS efforts.

A professor of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco, he was a leading AIDS-policy official during the Clinton administration and has helped China, Rwanda, and South Africa develop treatment plans.