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UK renews global HIV/AIDS pledge

    JOHANNESBURG

    A new US $2.8 billion three-year strategy to tackle HIV/AIDS globally was announced by the UK earlier this week.

    British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the plan would include about $278 million for HIV/AIDS orphans and a doubling to $278 million of the country's contribution to the Global AIDS Fund.

    Details of the plan were highlighted during a breakfast meeting with HIV-positive women and children, as well as UNAIDS executive director Peter Piot at the Prime Minister's Downing Street office in London.

    "Ignoring the issue of AIDS is simply not an option. This is a tragedy that spans personal and global scales and it is appalling that life expectancy in some of the worst affected areas is falling back to pre-1950 levels," Blair was quoted by a UK newspaper, The Guardian, as saying.

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