Look Who it Was Random video

AIDS treatment hit hard by Global Financial Crisis

262 views · Published 6 July 2009 · 0:47 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics

Watch on YouTube

United Nations, New York, 6 July 2009 - Noon briefing by the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. The well-being of millions of people could be put at risk as HIV prevention and treatment programmes fall victim to funding cutbacks as a result of the global economic crisis, warns a new report released today by the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Bank. 

The report, The Global Economic Crisis and HIV Prevention and Treatment Programmes: Vulnerabilities and Impact, says that eight countries  which together are home to more than 60 per cent of all those receiving AIDS treatment  are already facing shortages of antiretroviral drugs or other disruptions to treatment. 

In addition, 34 out of the 71 surveyed countries report that HIV prevention programmes focusing on high-risk groups such as sex workers, injection drug users and men who have sex with men are already feeling the impact of the crisis.

News story:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31372&Cr=aids&Cr1=

The Global Economic Crisis and HIV Prevention and Treatment Programmes: Vulnerabilities and Impact report
http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2009/jc1704_econcrisis_hivresponse_en.pdf

UNAIDS Web site:
http://www.unaids.org/en/

More from this channel