Just one in 10 countries have proper HIV plans

ONLY 10% of countries have HIV prevention programmes that are well matched to their national needs, leaving millions at risk of contracting the incurable virus, Aids scientists said yesterday.

The Global HIV Prevention Working Group, an international panel of 50 leading Aids experts, said many effective HIV prevention steps are not having anything like the impact they could because they are often not available to those at the greatest risk of infection.

In a “report card” published at an international Aids conference in Vienna on national efforts to try to prevent new infections with the human immunodeficiency virus that causes Aids, the group found most regions could do a lot better.