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The Independent UK
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Bel Trew

World is so close to ending Aids pandemic but must keep funding ‘miracle’ drugs, UN chief warns

The UK should “fight to the finish line” and help end the Aids pandemic, especially with “miracle” prevention drugs now available, the head of UNAIDS has urged amid unprecedented global aid cuts.

The world was on track to ending the HIV/Aids pandemic by 2030. But massive reductions in funding from the US, Europe and now the UK have caused the “biggest ever disruption” to services, Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS executive director, told The Independent ahead of the launch of its annual report on Tuesday.

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