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AIDS Conference Urges West To Keep Funding Pledges
"Already we are missing billions of euros in funding and the current financial crisis means that it could become more difficult to fill the gap," UNAIDS executive director Peter Piot warned at the opening of a major international conference on AIDS in Dakar.
He called on donors to keep their promises for funding to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
"The fund has become an indispensible partner in the fight against HIV/AIDS and will be even more necessary in times of crisis," said Piot, who is stepping down after leading the United Nations' AIDS agency since its creation in 1995.
Burundi AIDS activist Jeanne Gapiya, who has been HIV-positive for the last 22 years, was applauded when she chided Western leaders for finding money to bail out financial firms while not meeting their obligations to the fund.
"The leaders of all the richest countries have without exception found considerable sums to fight the financial crisis," Gapiya said.
"Please stop telling us there is no more money!"
The 15th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) runs until Sunday.
French scientist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who shared the Nobel prize for medicine this year for discovering the HIV virus, told AFP that she too was concerned about the impact of the crisis.
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