UNAIDS has inflated its HIV/AIDS figures for years and now claims the natural decline of AIDS as a victory (it started before UNAIDS was set up): Bill Clinton at the international AIDS conference in Vienna attacked the waste of money but this analyst says UNAIDS should just be shut down. In fact, AIDS is not even the top killer in Africa, let alone anywhere else.
Activists invaded the platform at the International AIDS conference in Vienna last week to demand more money--but for what? With drugs now less than US$100 per person per year, treating the five million people now on therapy should cost US$500 million, say US$1 billion including logistics and support. Yet the world spends US$16 billion annually on HIV.
