United Nations Radio

A new report released today reveals that countries around the world are not providing sufficient reports on how they are responding to the global AIDS epidemic.

The AIDS Accountability Country Scorecard was released in Stockholm by the independent non-profit organization, AIDS Accountability International, which works to increase accountability and improve responses to AIDS.

It says that current reporting on national responses to the pandemic is so incomplete that it is difficult to compare how different countries are performing.

The scorecard points out that this also makes it hard to analyze progress made by governments in fulfilling the commitments they made in the United Nations Declaration on HIV/AIDS unanimously adopted in 2001.

The Country Scorecard notes that while the number of reporting countries has increased, less than half of them provided essential data on prevention interventions.

Only a quarter of the countries reported on information that is critical to addressing AIDS in the most-at-risk populations, the report says.

Diane Bailey, United Nations.

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