Saturday, August 09, 2008

Aids conference ends with warning

An international Aids conference has ended with a warning that commitments made by wealthy countries to fund access to HIV treatment may not be met.

BBC reports:
The charity Oxfam said there had been an air of complacency from government and UN officials at the Mexico meeting. In 2005, the G8 industrialised nations set a goal of providing HIV treatment to all who needed it by 2010. But with less than two years to go, the G8 leaders have committed little more than a third of the promised resources. Michel Kazatchkine, the head of the Global Fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria, said that although lives were being saved on an unprecedented scale, he was deeply concerned at the lack of funds. READ MORE