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AIDS advocates blast wealthy nations on funding |
The advocates made this known in statements made available to newsmen at the UN headquarters in New York on Saturday.
"The Group of Eight (G-8) wealthy countries promised in 2005 that they would ban d together to provide funding for HIV treatment for anyone in the world who need e d it," they recalled.
"(But) with only two years to go on their self-imposed deadline, only a third of the funding has materialised," they said.
The statements issued to the Pan African News Agency (PANA) in New York by the c harity organisation, Oxfam and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and M a laria, were also made at an international AIDS conference this week in Mexico Ci t y.
"What we have is the sense of real slippage that, well, you know, it may not be 2010 and it probably will be 2015, as if that does not matter," Robert Fox, the l eader of Oxfam International's delegation in Mexico City, was quoted as saying.
Some 24,000 people attended the conference, which was dominated by the voices of those who bore the brunt of the HIV pandemic.
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who addressed the conference, said that th e stigmatisation of people living with HIV "remains a grave challenge in most co u ntries".
He called on all countries to live up to their commitments to enact or enforce legislations outlawing discrimination against people living with HIV and members of the vulnerable groups.
Those vulnerable groups include women, men who have sex with men, sex workers, d rug users and ethnic minorities.
The UN chief also urged people around the world to be always supportive and avoi d any form of discrimination against them.
The conference ended on Friday.
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