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WHO pressures rich nations for more AIDS funding

    JOHANNESBURG

    Rich nations have once again been urged to provide more money for tackling the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.

    During a recent global health conference in Brazil, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Jong-Wook Lee, called on Britain, Japan and Scandinavian nations in particular, to donate more money to the organisation's global push against the disease.

    He said while funding for HIV/AIDS had increased from US $3.2 billion in 2002 to $4.7 billion, it was still less than half the yearly total needed to fight the spread of the epidemic and provide drugs to treat HIV-positive people.

    Lee said in a Reuters report that "very urgent action and not the business-as-usual approach" was now needed.

    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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