Pambazuka News

Global: WHO HIV boss warns against two-tier global system of treatment

2009-07-03, Issue 440

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/hivaids/57514


If HIV treatment standards in the global South do not keep up with standards in wealthy nations, history will not judge well current efforts to expand treatment in resource-limited settings, Dr Kevin M De Cock, outgoing head of HIV at the World Health Organization, told the 2009 HIV Implementers’ Meeting in Windhoek, Namibia, earlier this month.