To the world financial crisis will pose new challenges to fight AIDS
2009-07-20 10:20:10 Source: International online专稿Editor: Yao Yi Jing
 

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International online coverage (朱曼君reporter): The Fifth International AIDS Society AIDS pathogenesis and control of 19 the night of the General Assembly the legislative capital, Cape Town, South Africa, opened. The meeting will focus on how to speed up the latest "anti-AIDS" and the application of research results to the low and middle income countries to discuss issues such as tilt. Many participants said that they are most worried about the impact of the global financial crisis, Western countries have reduced the treatment and prevention of AIDS, the input, which could give the global anti-AIDS activities "catastrophic" consequences.

From all over the world more than 5,000 researchers, practitioners and anti-AIDS-related agencies will attend the meeting for a 4-day meeting. President of the General Assembly, the President of the International AIDS Society Montaner at the opening ceremony said that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, "is at a crucial moment or falls behind," the present "human autoimmune HIV" (HIV) large the outbreak of the "true threat." Montaner said that in low-income countries, nearly four million AIDS patients can not accept any treatment, along with six million people living with HIV, the virus had not received any form of detection, may continue to spread the virus.

International AIDS Society will be distributed before a press briefing that the global financial crisis, the reduction or elimination of many countries made the earlier increase in anti-AIDS commitment, which makes the world an unprecedented anti-Ai grim situation. MSF is also on the 18th before the meeting warned that reducing the consequences of anti-AI input would be "disastrous." The organization said that as a serious lack of funds, has been proven to be effective anti-retroviral AIDS treatment can not be carried out in many countries, and in the treatment has been carried out in Uganda, Congo (Kinshasa), Zimbabwe, Guinea, South Africa and Malawi 6 African countries, in recent weeks the organization has been unable to accept new patients and provide treatment in some countries, they even had to stop to have accepted drugs for the treatment of patients.

As early as last month, the United Nations in a report on the requirements of Governments to refrain from reducing the financial crisis as an excuse to put anti-Ai, the report pointed out that the current global anti-AIDS a serious shortage of inputs, each of the five HIV-infected persons, only two can to accept treatment. Disease prevention and risk reduction projects, will increase the number of newly infected population and future population in need of treatment, which will make the next significant increase in the cost of anti-Ai.

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Foundation since 2002 since the establishment of more than 140 countries around the world provides a 156 billion anti-AIDS funds. At present, the organization each year to raise the anti-AIDS funds have accounted for the global anti-AIDS a quarter of total investment. However, according to a spokesman for Doctors Without Borders, Ms. Phillips said that this year by the financial crisis, the Foundation for at least 30 to 40 billion dollars in donor commitments are not in place.

Philip said that former U.S. President George W. Bush established the "President of anti-AIDS emergency plan" has 3-year period, in spite of Obama's new president promised during his election campaign office of the scheme each year will add one billion U.S. dollars capital injection, but At present, the delay did not honor this commitment.

International AIDS Society calls upon the international community to increase in low and middle income countries on anti-AIDS assistance, but also calls upon those States to the Government to strengthen the work of great importance to fight against AIDS, and enhance their own ability and the anti-AIDS and to increase government investment.

It is understood that the southern African country is the world's highest AIDS incidence areas, the world's 33 million HIV carriers in the two-thirds live in the region, while three-quarters of AIDS deaths also comes from this area. Meeting of the host country South Africa is the world's AIDS cases than any other country, the national population of 46 million people is 5.2 million people living with HIV. South African Deputy President莫特兰蒂attended the opening ceremony and welcoming remarks on behalf of. Conference Co-Chairman, South Africa, a non-governmental anti-AIDS agency, said Wadia library, anti-AIDS work is a post-apartheid era in South Africa has a historic significance of the event to South Africa's political, social, economic life has a decisive influence . He called on African governments continue to intensify anti-Ai input, establish a comprehensive health care system in order to reduce Africa's AIDS deaths.