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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2001;285:1283.

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Governments worldwide must increase their political and financial commitments to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic, urges United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a new report.

"HIV/AIDS is the most formidable development challenge of our time," Annan notes in the 29-page report, which is intended to set the tone for an unprecedented General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, to be held in New York on June 25-27. The epidemic "threatens the social and economic fabric of communities and the political stability of nations," he said.

Annan says that only with more effective political leadership, community-led interventions, and effective partnerships with the private sector "can a response emerge that is consistent with the scale of the epidemic."

The report points to the urgent need to strengthen health care systems and calls on wealthy nations to provide funds to make antiretroviral therapy and drugs for opportunistic infections available to people in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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