US President George W Bush has pledged USD15 B over the next five years to fight Aids. In his State of the Union address, Mr Bush said the money would provide drugs for two million people with the disease and help to prevent seven million new infections. The money will be targeted at projects in sub-Saharan Africa, where as many as one in three adults in some countries have HIV. The president said his Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief would also help those Caribbean countries worst affected by the disease. Most of the fund's $15bn budget will be earmarked for use in Botswana, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

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