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UN envoy hopeful of strengthened AIDS relief

    JOHANNESBURG

    This year could see the international community truly committed to helping those dying from HIV/AIDS in developing countries, a senior UN official said on Wednesday.

    Addressing hundreds of people at London's Metropolitan United Church, the UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, said tremendous pressure was already being directed from the UK to other western nations.

    The London Free Press quoted him as saying: "It is possible that we could have some kind of breakthrough."

    Lewis said the hundreds of millions of dollars pledged by British Prime Minister Tony Blair in support of HIV/AIDS relief in Africa was a move he hoped other nations would soon follow.

    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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