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$10 Billion Gap In Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Says UN AIDS Chief

by Gopalan T on August 29, 2010 at 12:28 PM AIDS/HIV News

While there are 10 million people with HIV currently waiting to get treatment, there is a yawing $10 billion gap in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, says Mr Michel Sidibe, executive director of UN AIDS.

$10 Billion Gap In Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Says UN AIDS Chief

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Even as two million people die of HIV/AIDS annually across the world, there is a donor fatigue, leaving a huge gap in the funds required to fight the epidemic, he fears. But there are some heartening trends too.

While talking to ABC Radio, he recounted an example from the northern part of Uganda where the health workers using AIDS money, go the village levels with a mobile phone and just finding women pregnant and bleeding and just sending a message to the reference hospital by saying that I have women bleeding here, what to do?

�And the message coming back 30 seconds later and this health worker making an injection, stopping the woman to bleed and transfer the lady to the reference centre. That's save the life of this lady, save the life of a baby.

�When you have this type of positive action in the remote village, is not right to break the hope of those people. We should not transform this universal hope we have been creating into universal nightmare. We need to continual this global solidarity to produce results for them.�

He has been head of the UN program for over a year and has set ambitious goals. He wants all countries to aim for no new HIV infections by 2015.

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