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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) |
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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 |
[1] Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, General Assembly of the United Nations, June 2001
[2] It 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).