WHO puts HIV/AIDS pandemic at top of its agenda

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The spread of HIV/AIDS poses a major challenge for the global health system and there is an urgent need to make effective treatment available to millions of patients in poor countries coupled with accelerated prevention efforts says WHOs World Health Report 2004. "Expanding the use of antiretroviral therapy will allow countries to support effective systems of delivering chronic care" says WHO chief Lee Jong-Wook in the report Changing History which was released on May 11 as an introduction to the annual World Health Assembly (May 17-22). Lee concedes that "the stakes are high" as the rapid expansion of antiretroviral treatment to countries in urgent need "is a large and difficult undertaking". WHO estimates that about 6 million people in developing countries will die in the near future if they do not receive access to treatment; "only about 400 000 of them were receiving it in 2003 ... A treatment gap of such dimensions is indefensible" it says. (excerpt)

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Summary Report Persons Living With HIV/AIDS WHO AIDS Epidemics Funds Antiretroviral Therapy Delivery of Health Care HIV Prevention HIV Infections