How much will it cost to respond effectively to the global AIDS crisis?
UNAIDS estimates that simply to maintain the current pace of universal access scale-up, funding levels will need to increase by over 50% by 2010. In 2007, while $10 billion was put toward for HIV programs, UNAIDS estimates there was a funding gap of $8.1 billion – meaning roughly only half of the amount needed was available. At the same time, commitments to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria have fallen far short of the amount needed. According to current figures, the Fund will need $4 billion in 2008 to meet demand for its programs, but pledges as of August 2008 totaled only $3.2 billion.
