According to UNAIDS, 10 billion US dollars has been made available to the cause so far. For the most part, hardest hit countries by the epidemic have been the majority of recipients, of which most are in Africa. A large proportion of funding has been made available for sexual behaviour change programmes, Voluntary Councelling and Testing and treatment campaigns which have been a main focus of the response so far.

 

However, to achieve universal access by 2010, funding still has to be scaled up by 50% to address a US $ 8.1 billion funding gap. In addition, it has been realised that more funds need to be made available for health system support, civil society support and addressing gender imbalances, which are key factors that still need to be tackled in order to curb the HIV/AIDS epidemic. African governments in particular need to start scaling up the amounts they spend on their health infrastructure, technology, health personnel and finding lasting solutions to tackling gender discrimination as well as to foster gender empowerment (see map for per capita health expenditure).