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Not enough done for AIDS - UN chief

    JOHANNESBURG

    UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned that global efforts to reduce the scale and impact of HIV/AIDS by 2005 are not following projections made three years ago.

    At the General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in 2001, governments of the world made a number of pledges aimed at defeating the disease in a document titled "Declaration of Commitment".

    Annan told 17,000 delegates at the opening of the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday: "It is clear that if the declaration of commitment is to live up to its name, we will have to do much, much better on several fronts."

    The UN chief also noted that women were increasingly bearing the brunt of the pandemic and emphasised the need for nations to build up the necessary infrastructure to support HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programmes.

    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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