New report urges region to tighten belt in HIV fight

The financial model for supporting HIV programmes in the Caribbean must be reconsidered and new efficiencies are needed, a new report has said, while pointing to a reduction in development assistance from donor governments.

UNAIDS yesterday released the report, ‘The status of HIV in the Caribbean’, which emphasized the need for continued funding in HIV at the national level. Governments are expected to better estimate the costs of supporting existing HIV responses, identify how these needs can be financed by national resources, and adopt measures that will help