Health Policy Watch "African leaders have applauded the US move to appoint John Nkengasong as head of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Reliefs (PEPFAR) – saying he’ll reinvigorate the programme that has been a flagship for the global battle against the AIDS pandemic for nearly decades. But they also said the loss of Nkgengasong as head of the African Union’s Centers for Disease Control (Africa CDC), would be a blow to the Organization that he built from a virtual unknown into a full-fledged AU health agency during his five-year tenure."