Many of those being diagnosed are people

Many of those being diagnosed are people infected some years ago, but who are now coming forward for testing. This is good news because once people are diagnosed they can seek treatment."Barry Evans¹⁰²

Kofi Annan

In April, at the African Summit in Nigeria, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for spending on AIDS to be increased tenfold in developing countries.¹⁰³ He suggested 'a war chest' of $7-10 billion to be spent annually on a global campaign against AIDS - a massive increase on the $1 billion per year that was then being spent.¹⁰⁴ A few weeks after, it was announced that a new Global AIDS and Health Fund would not only target AIDS (as had at first been suggested) but would also address tuberculosis and malaria.¹⁰⁵

"In this effort, there is no us and them, no developed and developing countries, no rich and poor - only a common enemy that knows no frontiers and threatens all people."Kofi Annan at the G8 summit in Genoa¹⁰⁶

There were some concerns about how this new initiative was going to be governed and implemented, and the U.S. government was criticised for contributing only $200 million to the fund. Later on in the year, it was officially named as The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.¹⁰⁷ The amount of money donated to the Fund was a disappointingly low $1.6 billion¹⁰⁸much less than the $10 billion that Kofi Annan had called for.

Newspapers all over the world marked the 20th anniversary of the first published report on the disease that came to be known as AIDS.

"At the time, I read the report with great interest, but I never imagined I was looking at the first sign of an epidemic, that in just 20 years would have infected 60 million people, killed 22 million and achieved the status of the most devastating epidemic in human history."Peter Piot recalling the first mention of AIDS¹⁰⁹

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni opened a regional centre for treatment of HIV-positive patients in Kampala. One of the main aims of the centre was to train health workers from all over Africa.

"Our hope is that the hundreds trained here will train thousands who will treat millions