The British Magazine „Economist‟ writes that the release of this years „AIDS epidemic update‟, the annual report on the disease by UNAIDS and the WHO, may give the reader a slightly uneasy feeling.
In 2003, the two agencies launched what was known as the 3×5 Initiative. This had the aim, by the end of 2005, of getting 3 million people in poor and middle-income countries on to the antiviral drugs that sufferers in rich countries have come to regard as their birthright.
It is hard, however, to find any mention of it in this years report.
Presumably, that is because reality is going to fall woefully short of ambition. Though the final figures are not out, as the deadline has not yet passed, the last progress report talked of one million rather than three million.
Kilde: www.worldbank.org
