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Summary The heads of 30 states will gather at the UN to discuss how many should qualify for drugs.
A UN AIDS summit starting on Wednesday must set key figures on how many people will get special treatment to hold back the disease which has killed nearly 30 million people in the past three decades.And as 30 heads of state and government gather at the UN headquarters key funding nations are digging their heels in on how many should qualify for drugs and therapies which new research has showed is braking the spread of AIDS.There are an estimated 34 million people living with AIDS and more than nine million are still not getting treatment, according to UN statistics. About 6.6 million people are getting drugs and the rest do not know they have AIDS.
