The District’s health director has launched an aggressive drive to improve the government’s response to HIV/AIDS, instructing his staff to develop disease response and prevention plans, distribute condoms and organize its HIV data — all within a three-month period.

Dr. Gregg Pane, who took charge of the health department’s troubled HIV/AIDS Administration in early January, now realigns the administration and marshals its resources to tackle a series of “critical tasks” within 90 days. One in 20 District residents is infected with HIV and one in 50 is living with AIDS.