Johannesburg - An
independent, global medical and humanitarian organization says African nations
are not receiving adequate international funding to fight HIV/Aids, leaving
them to face catastrophic consequences without enough medication.
Experts
at Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, on Thursday said Congo
is only able to supply anti-retroviral drugs to 15% of the people needing them
and "patients are literally dying on our doorstep".
In a statement
released in Johannesburg ahead of the United Nations world Aids conference in
Washington starting on 22 July, the organisation said countries worst affected
by the pandemic were the least able to provide "the best science"
available to fight it.
The group says
that while world data by the UN has pointed to gains over the disease, donors
have scaled back on earlier funding commitments to Africa.
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