Last week the UN Aids organization and the World Bank released a report saying HIV medication was running out, in the eight countries which have sixty per cent of the world’s AIDS victims.
Those countries include Papua New Guinea and several African states.
UNAIDS coordinator for the Pacific Islands, Stuart Watson told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat program there were never enough resources to fulfill the demand for HIV drugs.
“It isn’t simply the global financial crisis,” he said.
“It’s that there simply hasn’t been enough money to meet the basic needs. In particularly high prevalence countries in Africa, in Papua New Guinea, we simply don’t have enough money to meet the needs.”
