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Three-fold increase on AIDS spending urged

    JOHANNESBURG

    Global spending on HIV/AIDS prevention programmes would have to increase three-fold to US $5.7 billion by 2005 to help reverse the global epidemic, a new report has found.

    Coming ahead of a national AIDS conference in South Africa, the International HIV/AIDS Working Group's report also urges donor governments to increase spending on prevention to 0.02 percent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

    Extrapolating from UNAIDS estimates for sub-Saharan Africa, the group said total spending for 2002 on prevention services in the region had amounted to $927 million.

    It is estimated that some 29 million people south of the Sahara, including three million children under the age of 15, are currently living with HIV/AIDS.

    The report estimates that a figure of $1.5 billion annually would be needed by 2005, and $1.65 billion by 2007 for prevention programmes to be brought to scale.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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