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Recent developments suggest that substantial clinical and programmatic advantages can come from adopting a single, universal regimen both to treat HIV-infected pregnant women and to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. This streamlining should maximize PMTCT programme performance through better alignment and linkages with antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes at every level of service delivery. One of WHO’s two currently recommended PMTCT antiretroviral (ARV) programme options, Option B, takes this unified approach | May 2012 www.epa.gov childrenstaskforce President s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities Approximately 7 million children aged 0 to 17 in the United States have asthma with poor and minority children suffering a greater burden of the disease.1 Asthma persists into adulthood and the costs to society are high medical expenses associated with asthma are estimated to be 50 billion annually.2 It is critical that we promote synergy across the numerous federal programs that affect asthma management in order to reduce this burden and these disparities. The magnitude of the problem of asthma disparities and the breadth of stakeholder involvement required to address it will necessitate enhancing the interagency coordination of partnerships that many of our federal programs already have with state and local health departments nonprofit organizations community asthma coalitions and asthma foundations. Preventable factors related to effective asthma management are well established. Coordinating our federal efforts will help us take appropriate actions to better address these known preventable factors in underserved populations. In this plan we propose to build on the strengths and lessons learned from past and existing federal asthma programs combine efforts among federal programs at the community level and develop collaborative strategies to fill knowledge gaps within existing resources. With clear evidence of broad commitment to reducing health disparities from federal state and local partners the timing is right for this Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities Action Plan to accelerate actions that will reduce asthma disparities. The Action Plan presents a framework to maximize the use of our existing federal resources for addressing this major .
