AIDS response: Impact of the economic crisis
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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics
United Nations, New York, 7 August 2009 - Daily press briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. UNAIDS Together with the World Health Organization and World Bank has put in place a system to monitor the effects of the economic crisis on the AIDS response. UNAIDS says it is particularly concerned by how the economic crisis is affecting treatment and prevention programmes. According to a series of surveys it conducted over the last few months, many countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, are running out of critical stocks of anti-retroviral drugs. In related news, UNAIDS has welcomed the Clinton Foundations agreement with Pfizer and Matrix Laboratories to reduce the prices of second-line drugs. Those are the medicines required when people living with HIV fail to respond to standard treatments. UNAIDS website: http://www.unaids.org/
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