HIV/AIDS fund flops

In June the Global AIDS and Health Fund was launched with great fanfare. The fund should have been up and running by now, but six months on, the $10bn target proposed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan stands at just $1.5bn. Administrative structures are not in place and no money has been disbursed. Since the fund was announced, it's estimated 1.5 million people - equivalent to almost the entire population of Northern Ireland - will have died from AIDS. Among them will be over a quarter of a million children.