Category: World Service
Date: 28.11.2005
Printable version
Dr Jim Kim, Director of the World Health Organisation's HIV/Aids programme - who is in charge of the WHO's Three by Five initiative - has made an extraordinary apology for the scheme's lack of success on a Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ World Service programme, which is also called Three by Five.
Ìý
The initiative, launched in 2003, pledged that by the end of this year three million people infected with HIV would still be alive because they would be receiving appropriate medical treatment.
Ìý
As 2005 draws to a close, it is clear that the target has not been met. Only one million people have received the medication they need to stay alive. Two million still have no access to life-saving treatment.
Ìý
Talking to Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ World Service reporter Nigel Wrench, Dr Jim Kim explains how he feels about the failure of Three by Five to make anti-retroviral drugs, the main weapon in the fight against HIV, available to the world's poorest people.
Ìý
"I am personally extremely disappointed in myself and in my colleagues because we haven't moved quickly enough, we haven't saved enough lives. So it's hard to sit back and rejoice when you know that so many people are dying."
Ìý
Notes to Editors
Ìý
Three by Five can be heard on Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ World Service on Monday 28 November 2005, from 9.05 to 9.30am.
Ìý
JM2
Ìý
