Report on financing anti-AIDS: the developed countries in 2008 committed to increase funding
At 7:30 on July 14, 2009 Source: China News Net
By July 14 the United Nations web site, according to Xinhua reports, UNAIDS and the Kaiser Family Foundation on July 13 jointly issued a report that the developed countries in 2008 committed to low and middle income countries to provide funds to fight AIDS amounted to 8.7 billion U.S. dollars, higher than that in 2007 6.6 billion U.S. dollars; Among them, the actual total amount of funds to pay 7.7 billion U.S. dollars, in 2007 an increase of more than 56%.

The report notes that the amount actually paid from the point of view, the United States to 4 billion U.S. dollars of the total number of ranked first, followed by the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Norway and Sweden and other countries. If the amount actually paid from the account for the proportion of gross domestic product measured in the first donor of the Netherlands, followed by the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States and other countries.

From 2002 to 2008, the developed countries and undertook to pay the actual payment of funds to fight AIDS has increased by more than five times. However, the report noted that, despite this positive trend, but existing data show that the developed countries in the fight against AIDS assistance budget are in the global economy before the escalation of the crisis developed, with the crisis deepening, the future funding may be impact.

Earlier this year, UNAIDS released a report, it is necessary to ensure that the 2010 goal of universal access to AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services, also need the input of 25 billion U.S. dollars, and the current phase of funding already in place ratio of 11.3 billion U.S. dollars is still a gap.