HIV can be crushed by 2030… at a cost. But the payback will be worth it, says UNAIDS.
The United Nations programme on AIDS and HIV has announced its , with the proviso that the goal can only be reached if the amount spent every year gradually increases from $21.7 billion today to $32 billion by 2020, totalling $30 billion extra over that period.
This would mean we could double the number of people on antiretroviral drugs in poor- and medium-income countries in the next five years.
“We’ve bent the curve, but to break it we need to take advantage of the fast-track approach over the next five years,” says Peter Ghys of UNAIDS. “Otherwise the epidemic will continue to rise forever, and the costs will rise forever. So it’s a case of pay now or pay forever.”
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