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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The global fight against AIDS is seeing its first signs of success in hardest-hit Africa, but the $8 billion being spent this year to combat the disease must be doubled because the epidemic is expanding worldwide.
That's the message representatives from 127 countries will be hearing at a high-level U.N. meeting Thursday to assess progress toward meeting targets set at a U.N. General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in 2001 to start tackling the crisis.
Peter Piot, head of the U.N. campaign to combat the disease, said there is some good news: money to combat AIDS has quadrupled in four years and new infections are declining in half a dozen East African countries, the Bahamas and Cambodia.
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