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Associated Press - November 30, 2005
Prime Minister Tony Blair's government said GBP20 million would go to the International Aids Vaccine Initiative and GBP7.5 million toward developing microbicides that could protect against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
"The AIDS crisis represents a human tragedy for the more than 40 million men, women and children suffering from the disease around the world," Blair said in a statement.
"As president of the G8 and the EU, the U.K. is showing leadership in the global fight against AIDS through a strong commitment to increased prevention and treatment."
At a summit in Scotland in July, the G8 group of nations pledged to work toward universal access to AIDS treatment by 2010.
A committee of U.K. lawmakers, however, expressed concern that efforts to fight the disease could be held back by the "increasingly moralistic" tone of AIDS prevention programs implemented by the United States.
The United States has been accused of backing programs that encourage sexual abstinence at the expense of those that distribute condoms to people at risk of AIDS.
Washington's increasing focus on abstinence "does not tally with an evidence-based approach" to fighting AIDS, the House of Commons International Development Committee said in a report.
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