KOBE -- Providing effective AIDS prevention and treatment in China and India will determine whether the global epidemic can be contained, officials at the 7th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific warned Monday.
"Among 20 countries that account for 85 percent of the unmet global treatment need, millions of Chinese and Indians' lives hang in the balance. Efforts in these two countries will determine the course of the global epidemic," said Jim Yong Kim, director of the HIV/AIDS department at the World Health Organization.
"There is no doubt that because of their vast size and populations, they face enormous challenges in translating their political commitments into action," he said.