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Global aids fight : who should be paying how much ?

Wednesday 7 July 2004

On June 27 2001 at the United Nations, all countries committed themselves to a global funding target of 10 billion dollars per year [1]. The table below lists the countries who should be the main achievers of this target, and most responsible for the current funding crisis.

Country Gross Domestic Product (billion USD) Share of world GDP (%) Fair share of global funding commitment (million USD) Actual 2003 funding (million USD) 2003 funding shortfall (million USD) Share of global funding shortfall (%) Number of avoidable annual aids deaths (if funding commitment is fulfilled)
United States 10 383 32,2 3 220 900 2 320 43,8 1 314 000
Japan 3 993 12,4 1 240 165 1 075 20,3 609 000
Germany 1 984 6,1 610 130 480 9,1 273 000
United Kingdom [2] 1 563 4,8 480 510 -30 -0,6 -18 000
France 1 431 4,4 440 125 315 5,9 177 000
Italy 1 184 3,7 370 95 275 5,2 156 000
Canada 716 2,2 220 50 170 3,2 96 000
G7 21 256 65,8 6 580 1 975 4 605 86,9 2 607 000
Rest of OECD 5 028 15,6 1 560 525 1 035 19,5 585 000
Rest of World 5 979 18,5 1 850 2 200 -350 -6,6 -198 000
World 32 263 100 10 000 4 700 5 300 100 3 000 000

Sources

OCDE Main Economic Indicators Report, OECD, September 2003
UNAIDS Progress Report on the Global Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, UNAIDS, September 2003
Global Fund Pledges and Contributions, the Global Fund, July 2004
UNAIDS Progress Report on the Global Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 2003

[1Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, General Assembly of the United Nations, June 2001

[2It should be noted that the UK government claims to have increased its bilateral aids funding fivefold - from $100 million to $480 million - in the mysteriously short space of 3 mere years, and that this claim remains unsupported by any independent source. In the past 8 months, several British NGOs have put this UK government claim in question (see «UK AIDS aid : An analysis of DFID HIV/AIDS expenditure», ActionAid, November 2003).