UN report hails AIDS Healthcare Foundation

The UN Millennium Project, an independent advisory body commissioned by UN secretary general Kofi Annan to propose the best strategies and practices for meeting the 'Millennium Development Goals' for AIDS treatment in the developing world, has released a progress report.

'Combating AIDS in the Developing World,' in which several AIDS treatment projects and advocacy efforts of AIDS Healthcare Foundation Global Immunity (AHF-GI) are cited, comes from the Millennium Project's Task Force on HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria, and contains numerous examples of AHF-Global Immunity's work in Uganda and South Africa, and from a rapid report from an earlier AHF-Global Immunity Anti-retroviral Scale-Up Workshop in Amsterdam.

Henry E. Chang, executive director for AHF-global immunity, said: 'our work is to try and save as many lives as quickly as possible by providing medical care and anti-retroviral treatment through our AIDS treatment clinics in resource-poor settings including our facilities in South Africa and Uganda, and we are honoured to be cited for these collaborations.'

Michael Weinstein, AHF president, added: 'we will share this important UN report as widely as possible and with as many of our colleagues and partners as we can in an effort to rapidly and effectively scale up delivery of such life-saving treatment and anti-retroviral therapy worldwide.'