AIDS funding priority questioned

Critics see drain from more pressing world health problems
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, December 1, 2008
LONDON

As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, some analysts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs.

They argue that the world has entered a post-AIDS era in which the disease's spread has largely been curbed in much of the world, Africa excepted.

"AIDS is a terrible humanitarian tragedy, but it's just one of many terrible humanitarian tragedies," said Jeremy Shiffman, who studies health spending at Syracuse University. the rest