31 August 2001
AIDS activist groups urged delegates to the WCAR to address the failure of the international community to respond to the AIDS pandemic in Africa. In a statement received by IRIN on Friday, the groups described this failure as "the most critical manifestation of international racism".
In the statement, Africa Action, Treatment Action Campaign, Physicians for Human Rights, Oxfam, and the Student Global AIDS Campaign, said that HIV/AIDS highlighted a system of global injustice and global medical apartheid. They called upon the developed countries to contribute at least US $10 billion to the UN Global Health Fund for a comprehensive program of prevention, treatment and community support to fight HIV/AIDS. The groups added that failure to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic would constitute one of the greatest crimes against humanity.
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