Global Health

WHO: Target for HIV treatments will be reached

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 20th, 2004

The U.N. health agency says it believes it will achieve its ambitious plan to get 3 million people infected with HIV onto antiretroviral drugs by 2005.

The target is likely to be reached, thanks to global campaigns and work by individual countries, said Alex Ross, chief of staff of the World Health Organization group that deals with HIV/AIDS.

"When you add it all up, you quickly get to the point of having 3 million people," Ross said.

The "3 by 5" project was announced by WHO Director-General Lee Jong-Wook when he took office last year, as part of a global campaign to halt the spread of AIDS.

The U.N.-led...

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