World leaders 'lack political will to fight HIV/ AIDS'

World leaders lack the political will to ensure that everyone infected with HIV and Aids gets treatment, the head of a meeting dedicated to the disease said.

World leaders lack the political will to ensure that everyone infected with HIV and Aids gets treatment, the head of a meeting dedicated to the disease has said.

Julio Montaner - the president of the International Aids Society and chairman of the Aids 2010 conference - said the G8 group of rich nations failed to deliver on a commitment to guarantee so-called universal access and warned this could have dire consequences.