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Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (11.26.08) - Friday, December 12, 2008
John Lauermann, Bloomberg News
AAI gave the United States an "E," along with countries like Saudi Arabia and North Korea. The Stockholm-based group said the main reason for the poor score was the lack of information the United States provides to UNAIDS. In 2001, UN member nations adopted a declaration that commits them to regularly report on progress against HIV/AIDS.
The absence of US data, as well as data from other industrialized nations such as Denmark, Ireland, and Italy, makes it hard to assess which governments are having success against the epidemic and why others are failing, said AAI.
Reporting may be lacking for a number of reasons, and there may be a "certain amount of arrogance" from rich nations, said Per Strand, AAI's scientific director.
Many countries received poor grades because they did not collect data on the measures covered in the report. The United States failed to submit figures on six of seven measures, resulting in the lowest grade on the eighth measure, data collection. A widespread lack of transparency hinders accountability for commitments, the report said, noting that performance cannot be assessed unless countries provide all the requested data.
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