AIDS Funding

Annan calls for 50% increase in annual spending to fight HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 11th, 2002

With funding for the global response to HIV/AIDS still grossly inadequate, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on countries to increase their spending by at least 50% for the next 3 years in order to fight the epidemic effectively.

In report to the U.N. General Assembly on progress toward the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, Annan said only such a steady increase would allow the international community to meet its target of $10 billion by 2005. Present global spending is about one-third the amount required to meet that goal.

Unless the global response to HIV/AIDS is strengthened, Annan warns, there will...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-11-11)

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