HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY HARM REDUCTION GROUPS

Injecting drugs was one of the most efficient ways of spreading HIV/AIDS, Dr. Diane Riley of the International Harm Reduction Association told correspondents this afternoon during a press conference at Headquarters.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY JOINT UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMME ON HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

PRESS CONFERENCE BY AIDS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

The International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) endorsed the General Assembly special session's Declaration of Commitment, despite its failure explicitly to name homosexuals and sex workers as vulnerable groups, Richard Burzynski, the council's executive director said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY HEALTH MINISTER OF ROMANIA

The Government of Romania today concluded major agreements with four pharmaceutical companies to reduce the price of anti-retroviral drugs and make them accessible to the nearly 7,000 HIV-infected children in the country, its Minister of Health and Family, Dr. Daniela Bartos, announced today at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON FUTURE OF GLOBAL HIV PREVENTION

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF SENEGAL

PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEVELOPMENT MINISTER OF SWEDEN

Sweden would contribute an additional $60 million to the fight against HIV/AIDS during the next few years, that country’s Minister for Development Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy announced today at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON CONGRESS FOR AIDS IN ASIA AND PACIFIC

The upcoming Sixth International Congress for AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) would be a free zone for genuine discussion, cooperation, and interchange among elements of society and government, as well as infected and affected communities, Dennis Altman, one of the gathering's co-Chairs, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY KENYA

The enactment of legislation to make cheaper anti-retroviral drugs available to HIV/AIDS sufferers did not automatically confer accessibility to the medicines, Kenyan Public Health Minister Sam Ongeri told correspondents this afternoon.