- Author
- Bowtell, Bill
- Title
- HIV/AIDS: The Looming Asia Pacific Pandemic
- In
- Lowy Institute Policy Brief
- Imprint
- The Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, March 2007, 20 pp
- Url
- http://www.lowyinstitute.org/
- Abstract
"The international effort to control the spread of the HIV pandemic is failing: new HIV caseloads are rising alarmingly in many parts of the Asia Pacific. For over 20 years we have known how to prevent the transmission of the HIV virus by persuading young people to make simple and sustainable changes in sexual practices and other risky behaviours. Yet despite the scientific evidence, many national governments are unable or unwilling to act in time to avert the problem.
The resolve of national governments to act to prevent the spread of HIV has been prejudiced by the failure of the most influential donors and successive international agencies charged with the management of the HIV pandemic to agree on a single set of pragmatic and achievable prevention principles and policies and to fund them adequately.
The absolute size of the global HIV caseload threatens severe financial consequences and may also encourage the emergence of new, more virulent strains of tuberculosis."