(6)The abovementioned UN Declaration of Commitment agreed, for HIV/AIDS alone, to reach by 2005 through a series of incremental steps an overall target of annual expenditure on the epidemic of between USD 7 and 10 thousand million in low and middle-income countries and countries experiencing or at risk of experiencing a rapid spread of the disease, for prevention, care, treatment, support and mitigation of the impact of HIV/AIDS, and to take measures to ensure that the resources needed are made available, particularly from donor countries and also from national budgets, bearing in mind that resources of the most affected countries are seriously limited.