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Miami Herlad - Tuesday, October 30, 2001
Yolanda Simon, chairwoman of the 10th International Conference for People Living with HIV/AIDS, criticized such priorities, questioning why "it's taking so long to experience mobilization for HIV in the same manner as that for terror-inspired anthrax."
Peter Piot, director of the Joint U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS, said governments need "political will" to fund prevention and treatment campaigns for the estimated 36 million people infected.
"Hundreds of billions of dollars were spent on the non-virus of the Y2K millennium," he said, referring to the campaign to update computers for the year 2000. "It illustrates that not because something is important with many people suffer from it that money is automatically available for it."
Piot said HIV and AIDS should be made a major human rights issue.
The United Nations' global fund for HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases has reached dlrs 1.5 billion -- far below the targeted dlrs 7 billion to dlrs 10 billion, Piot said. The money was pledged by various governments and other donors.
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