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Delegates ready for UNGASS

    JOHANNESBURG

    South African AIDS activists will be attending the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on AIDS in New York this week, where progress in countering the pandemic since 2001 will be reviewed.

    More than 180 countries promised five years ago to accelerate the global battle against AIDS and reverse escalating infection rates.

    Despite a more than fourfold increase in financing for anti-AIDS programmes and greater numbers of people accessing cheaper or free antiretrovirals than ever before, the local AIDS lobby group, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), said more must be done.

    TAC's Sipho Mthathi told the South African Broadcasting Corporation: "When we say that we have achieved a lot in dealing with AIDS, we must also acknowledge that the size of the pandemic demands ten times more effort; it demands - in fact, more than anything else - political leadership."

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