Opinion & Analysis
Why do Aids activists want more money?
Participants demonstrate at a past anti-HIV/Aids campaign. Photo/FILE
Posted Wednesday, July 28 2010 at 00:00
It was slow to support clinical circumcision in prevention despite mounting evidence in favour.
UNAids has not hesitated to take credit for recent declines in HIV but, in fact, HIV has been falling in Africa since the late 1990s, before UNAids was working and before the big HIV funding started.
The decline is more a result of the natural course of the disease.
How important is HIV?
Globally it is insignificant, accounting for three per cent of deaths.
Even in Africa HIV is not significant for the vast majority of the continent’s 53 countries.
England is chair of the Health Systems Workshop, an independent think-tank promoting health systems reform in poor countries.
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