UN: Indonesia's New President Must Fill Funding Gap in HIV Fight

Indonesia, one of only three countries in the Asia-Pacific region that is seeing a trend of increased HIV infections, must plug a $30 million funding gap in its fight against HIV, a U.N. health official said on Wednesday. President-elect Joko Widodo, who won a July election, should build on the policies implemented by the outgoing administration, Cho Kah Sin, Indonesia country director for the United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS, told Reuters. Indonesia's five-year strategic...

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