PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHAIRMAN OF AIDS ROUND TABLE 4

A “vast and rapid increased funding” would be needed to support national efforts of developing countries in the fight against HIV/AIDS, President Benjamin Mkapa of the United Republic of Tanzania said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

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.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNICEF GOODWILL AMBASSADOR HARRY BELAFONTE

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF IRELAND

PRESS CONFERENCE ON EUROPEAN 'HOSPITAL SOLIDARITY' INITIATIVE

PRESS CONFERENCE BY GLOBAL BUSINESS COUNCIL ON HIV/AIDS

In the fight against HIV/AIDS, businesses have done less than 10 per cent of what they should have been doing so far, Richard C. Holbrooke, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and President and CEO of the Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS, told correspondents this morning during a press conference at Headquarters.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY UNAIDS

The mutually reinforcing nature of prevention and treatment would be clearly reflected in the declaration to be issued by the special session on HIV/AIDS, said Kathleen Cravero, the Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).  She was speaking this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference of UNAIDS executives, representing three of the seven UNAIDS co-sponsoring agencies.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES

Médecins sans Frontières -- Doctors without Borders –- stressed the importance of preventive efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.  The conference was part of a number of special events being held in connection with the General Assembly special session on AIDS.