Delivering the 2010 target: financing universal access to HIV and AIDS treatment

This paper looks at the current funding gap in the global response to HIV and AIDS and calls on the UK to work with other G8 countries to galvanise sufficient funding. It also calls on Gordon Brown to build on the UK’s political leadership in 2005 and push for G8 countries to agree on an international funding, focusing on the urgent delivery of existing financial commitments. It also calls on the UK to improve its own funding to HIV and AIDS. In doing so, emphasis is upon treatment.

The authors argue that a comprehensive approach to HIV and AIDS demands that prevention, treatment and care and support are seen as a mutually reinforcing continuum. All three components must therefore be addressed.

ActionAid is calling for:

• Gordon Brown to push for international agreement on a funding plan at the G8 meetings in 2007 that will deliver sufficient funding to achieve their commitment to universal access
• every nationally agreed target to be financed in full with predictable, untied funding, aligned to national priorities and free from conditions beyond those necessary to ensure the aid is spent for its stated purpose
• the UK to increase its commitment to HIV and AIDS in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review in 2007
• the Global Fund to be funded in full according to global resource needs, and for the UK to contribute its fair share
• DFID to improve the transparency of its bilateral funding
• DFID to prevent any imbalance in their programmatic interventions