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Global Fund boosts AIDS treatment access

    JOHANNESBURG

    A pledge of more than US $70 million from the Global AIDS Fund will boost Uganda's efforts to scale up anti-AIDS treatment.

    According to the BBC, the government said over 40 percent of the funds would be used to procure health and non-health supplies from outside the country.

    Uganda has had considerable success in reducing its HIV infection rate from 30 percent in the 1990s to below six percent currently, but only 25,000 of the people in urgent need of treatment can access AIDS drugs.

    Some 120,000 HIV-positive people, including orphans and vulnerable children, are expected to benefit from the funds.

    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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