Bangkok--May 7--Weber Shandwick (Thailand) The heads of the OPEC Fund for International Development and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) signed a Global Initiative on HIV/AIDS today to scale up the AIDS response in fourteentargeted countries in three regions. The initiative will receive a US$4 million grant from the OPEC Fund and UNAIDS will match the amount through in kind contributions. Over twenty years into the epidemic, AIDS continues to ravage developing countries,