Australian funds to help combat spiralling HIV crisis

Fiji’s growing HIV crisis will be tackled partly through Australian funding to bolster health services, supplies and drug imports. Australia has committed more than $15 million to help arrest the Pacific nation’s HIV outbreak. “Regrettably, as you know, Fiji is experiencing the fastest-growing HIV outbreaks in the world, and we, Australia, are standing with you in responding to this crisis,” Foreign Minister Penny Wong said while announcing the funding in Suva. About one in every 60 Fijian adults has HIV, and infections were up more than 25 per cent in March from the previous year. More than 2000 cases were…