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Poorly worded U.N. resolution inadvertently sends more AIDS to Africa
February 4, 2009 | Issue 6-4
After meeting with African leaders, UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on
HIV/AIDS, recommended to the U.N. General Assembly an increase in aid to Africa
by $15 billion a year for the next 25 years by 2010 to mitigate the impact of
the epidemic. Unfortunately, in a gaffe that has officials of the international
organization smacking their foreheads, a series of typographical errors on the
part of the drafters means the resolution will afflict an additional 15 billion
humans with the virus that causes AIDS over the next 25 years, causing much
greater suffering from the disease on the continent.
“Obviously this is not what we had in mind,” said
Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS.
“We will have a longer fight ahead of us now.”
UNAIDS is now calling upon the U.N. to pledge an increase of more than $30
billion a year to combat the even greater damage that will be caused by the
erroneous resolution.
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