The UNAIDS study which came up with the figure of $22 billion-$24 billion in 2015 also predicted that if this money were deployed wisely, the amount that needed to be spent would fall thereafter. An encouragement, surely, for a final push.
The plan, called Countdown to Zero, was developed by a team led by UNAids and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
South Africa is slowly moving from global pariah to poster child. The report chronicles the struggles, battles and the victories that have come in fighting the scourge over three decades. UNAids executive director, Dr Michael Sedibe, says with access to treatment, Aids has moved from what was effectively a death sentence to a chronic disease.
