Obama administration has directed its attention to the growing HIV menace in the U. S. It has on its agenda to prevent more and more people from getting the infection.

After OBAMA did it, even Bill Gates targeted his attention on the problem and called for more funding and stronger leadership to combat HIV/AIDS.

A national strategy has been chalked out which is being termed as significant by the activists and for this strategy, a huge sum of $30 million has been allocated.

The administration had focused its attention to the issue last year also and it was much more then as $45 million over five years to highlight the alarming rate of infection in the U. S. had been allocated.

Act Against AIDS, it was called so, could not prevent the infections however. Nancy Mahon, executive director of the MAC AIDS Fund said, “We’ve had a broken model that doesn’t fund prevention, but treatment alone.”

The scores of society that will get more attention are black men and women, gay and bisexual men, male and female Hispanics, and substance abusers. The aim is to bring down the infections by 25 per cent by 2015, to ensure that the number of people suffering from HIV is cut by 30 per cent, and making those aware who are living with it from 79 to 90 per cent.

Obama said, “Reducing new HIV infections; improving care for people living with HIV/AIDS; narrowing health disparities—these are the central goals of our national strategy.”