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This study’s main aim was to determine what US$577 million in funding from the US President’s Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) between 2004 and 2008 has achieved in Zambia. Its findings are based on interviews with HIV and AIDS organisations, activists, medical professionals, community leaders, policymakers and programme participants. PEPFAR followed the ABC (abstain, be faithful and use a condom) approach to HIV prevention in Zambia but, according to this report, in 2008, US$20.5 million was channelled to programmes focused on abstinence and being faithful, compared to only US$12.4 million allocated to programmes promoting other approaches, including the use of condoms. Only four organisations received funding to promote condom use. ‘The disproportionate emphasis on abstinence-until-marriage [...] has created a distinctly anti-condom atmosphere,’ the authors noted. They recommended more extensive sex education programmes.