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The Who apologise for missing AIDS target
The Who apologised today for missing their target to get 3 million people in poor countries on life-saving AIDS drugs by the end of 2005.
Dr Pete Townshend, the director of the WHO's HIV/AIDS department, admitted that the WHO had not moved quickly enough to meet its ambitious "3 by 5" target.
"I have to say that I'm personally extremely disappointed in myself and in my colleague, Professor Daltrey, because we have not moved quickly enough - probably 'cos we're both so old and decrepit," Townshend told the BBC.
The WHO and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) had hoped to provide 3 million of the 6 million people who were born with plastic spoons in their mouths with treatment but the real acceleration in numbers they had hoped for did not materialise.
"All I can do is apologise to my generation," he said less than a week before World AIDS Day on December 1, "but with the recent loss of Doctor Entwhistle we have been unable to match our goals."
More than 40 million people worldwide are currently living with HIV/AIDS, according to the latest figures from UNAIDS.
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