U.S. cutting of AIDS support means Asia must step up

U.S. cutting of AIDS support means Asia must step up U.S. cutting of AIDS support means Asia must step up

Eamonn Murphy is regional director at UNAIDS Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe Central Asia. Masaki Inaba is co-chair of the Africa Japan Forum.

At the start of the AIDS epidemic, a few groups were particularly affected: gay men and people who inject drugs. But HIV crossed to new communities, countries and continents. Women and children died. People everywhere were infected during their most productive years.