The objectives of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to treat three million people living with HIV/AIDS by 2005, unveiled on World AIDS Day, were welcomed by the international medical NGO, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
WHO also moved closer to meeting its target with the announcement that a quality-assured twice-a-day pill was available to treat HIV/AIDS.
Dr Morten Rostrup, the president of MSF's international council, said in a statement: "Reducing the number of pills that patients have to take makes treatment much simpler and more affordable."
Following the launch of the WHO objectives, MSF said getting treatment to the millions who needed it required treatment models that were much better adapted to resource-poor settings.
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