"A retreat from international funding commitments for AIDS threatens to undermine the dramatic gains made in reducing AIDS-related illness and death in recent years, according to a new report released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
"International support to combat HIV/AIDS is faltering, as reflected in significant shortfalls among two of the world’s main funding mechanisms for HIV/AIDS. The board of directors of the Global Fund, a key financer of AIDS programs in poor countries, is unable to respond to countries’ needs. The board will vote next week in Addis Ababa whether or not to suspend all new funding proposals in 2010. The US President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) , the American government’s AIDS program, is capping funding for two more years. This means that new patients will be turned away for treatment.
Report: Punishing Success: Early Signs of a Retreat from Commitment to HIV Care and Treatment."
Read more in Doctors Without Borders press release, November 5, 2009.
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