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More AIDS money from rich nations - UN

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    The UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, has urged wealthy nations to contribute more money to the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Speaking recently at the opening of the 11th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in San Francisco, the special envoy said this could help make up for a "decade of financial abstinence". Lewis told reporters that no country was "paying an adequate share" of money to help finance the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Research shows that in 2005 the Global Fund would need at least US $3.6 billion in 2005 to address the epidemic in developing countries.

    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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