Socioeconomics (HIV/AIDS)

Asia Has Economic Battle Over HIV/AIDS, Too

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 15th, 1999

Asian countries are hard-pressed to keep up with the still-growing price tag for fighting HIV/AIDS, at a time of economic hardship and a tougher environment for aid funds.

In many ways, they are finding out that the economic battle in the larger war against HIV/AIDS is just as difficult as the battle to ease its health effects.

Even for the world as a whole, the disease is spreading faster than people can find ways to cope with it.

"HIV/AIDS is spreading three times faster than the funding required to respond to it," said Mechai Viravaidya, a Thai businessman and activist named ambassador on HIV/AIDS issues by the U.N. Joint...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1999-11-15)

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