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The Group of Eight wealthy countries promised in 2005 that they would band together to provide funding for HIV treatment for anyone in the world who needed it, but with only two years to go on their self-imposed deadline, advocates say only a third of the funding has materialized, the BBC reported Saturday.

The statements from the charity Oxfam and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria were made at an international AIDS conference this week in Mexico City.

"What we have is the sense of real slippage, that, well, you know, it may not be 2010 and it probably will be 2015, as if that doesn't matter", Robert Fox, the leader of Oxfam International's delegation in Mexico City, told the BBC.

Some 24,000 people attended the conference, which was dominated by the voices of those who bore the brunt of the HIV pandemic.

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