UN Vows to Double Patients Receiving AIDS Drug Therapy by 2015
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World leaders meeting in New York this week to mark the 30th anniversary of the first reported case of AIDS have agreed to double by 2015 the number of people receiving life-saving drug therapy, to 15 million, and to spend an additional $6 billion a year fighting the disease.
A three-day special session of the United Nations General Assembly, attended by 30 heads of state and ministers from 100 other nations, was to end today with adoption of a declaration saying AIDS “remains an unprecedented human catastrophe” that poses “one of the most formidable challenges to the development, progress and stability of our respective societies.”