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The fight against AIDS requires billions more dollars, otherwise the epidemic may start over again, experts warned Sunday in Amsterdam, on the eve of the opening of the International Conference on this issue.
"We will have problems if we do not have more money," said Mark Dybul, a researcher and US diplomat, at a symposium held before the high mbad of the fight against AIDS, from Monday to Friday
M. Dybul is a former leader of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, a foundation that invests in the fight against this disease.
The worst case scenario according to him: the lack of funding is combined with the risk of an explosion of new infections because of rampant demography in some hard-hit countries, particularly in Africa.
"Shuffle these two things together and you will end up in a major crisis," he warned, fearing "the world will lose the control of the epidemic. "
Today, 36.9 million people are living with the HIV virus, hoping that it will not worsen in AIDS. The number of infections is falling and for the first time since the beginning of the century, the annual death toll has dropped below one million in 2016 (990,000) and 2017 (940,000).
But UNAIDS, the AIDS, estimates that $ 7 billion a year in funding for this disease is no longer a threat to global public health in 2030.
The research and US donations drop.
Since the election of Donald Trump, the United States, the first major contributor to the fight against AIDS, has budget cuts, which have not yet been adopted by the United States.
"Unless drastic measures are taken, we will not even get close to the goal set for 2030," said Nduku Kilonzo of the Kenya National Council for AIDS Control.
"We are very, very far from our goal, not only in terms of eliminating AIDS, but simply prevention, "she said, pointing out that funds dedicated to the distribution of condoms had fallen sharply.
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