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AIDS programmes
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 19 - 07 - 2010


Former US president Bill Clinton and Microsoft
founder Bill Gates urged HIV/AIDS organizations Monday to deliver
their services more efficiently and stop waste in the wake of the
global economic crisis, according to dpa.
At the biennial International AIDS Conference in Vienna, which
both men were addressing, advocates have warned that the United
States and other countries might lower their funding in the fight
against the global virus epidemic.
"Every dollar we waste today puts a life at risk," said Clinton.
Both he and Gates have started foundations that are major players
in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
"Our first task is to scale up prevention efforts that are cheap,
efficient and easy to apply," Gates said.
He called for pursuing male circumcision, for making health
institutions more efficient, and for the use of simpler HIV tests.
Clinton said organizations waste too much money on sending Western
experts to affected countries and on producing reports, he said.
The Clinton Foundation helps to lower treatment costs for HIV/AIDS
and to build up health services to provide such treatment.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the biggest
contributors to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria, which finances HIV/AIDS treatment around the world.
The Global Fund's executive director Michel Kazatchkine responded
to Gates' and Clinton's suggestions by saying that his organization
was trying to be more efficient.
But Kazatchkine warned against not adequately supporting the fund.
"So let me be clear," he said. "The replenishment will only be a
success if if we are able to raise enough funds not only to continue
existing programmes but also to fund large-scale additional
programs."
Increased spending on treating infected people will become
necessary under new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for
treating HIV, which were issued Monday.
The WHO advises that people should be treated earlier, while their
immune systems are still relatively strong, to reduce the HIV-related
death rate by 20 per cent.
The new guidelines effectively raise the number of people needing
HIV treatment from 10 to 15 million. Only 5.2 million received such
virus-fighting medication last year.
Access to such medicines is especially poor in Eastern Europe and
Central Asia, where young people bear the brunt of the epidemic,
according to the UN childrens' fund, UNESCO.


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