Africa: WHO's 3 x 5 Target Unlikely To Be Met, Official Says

The World Health Organisation's goal to provide AIDS drugs to 3 million infected people by 2005 is unlikely to be met, the organisation's Africa director, Ebrahim Malick Samba, said during a visit to Uganda. "The 3 x 5 is coming," Samba said, "but not as soon as expected." Samba said that while the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNICEF and bilateral partners were "keen" to support the program, some would be fulfilling their promises of support later rather than sooner. "You learn that people are more generous verbally than when it comes to giving," he said.