SECRETARY-GENERAL, ON WORLD AIDS DAY, PLEDGES TO DO UTMOST TO REACH GLOBAL TARGETS;

APPOINTS MICHEL SIDIBÉ OF MALI EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNAIDS

Following is the text of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on World AIDS Day, in Doha, today, 1 December:

‘WE ARE NOT POWERLESS IN FACE OF DISEASE’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN VIDEO MESSAGE

TO SADDLEBACK CIVIL FORUM ON GLOBAL HEALTH, IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN WORLD AIDS DAY MESSAGE, SAYS AIDS NOT DISAPPEARING ANY TIME

SOON; IT IS AS REAL, AS URGENT AS EVER TO LEAD, EMPOWER, DELIVER ON AIDS

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the occasion of World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S STATEMENT FOLLOWING MEETING AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS

WITH COMPANIES WORKING ON HIV/AIDS

 

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC ERODING AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS AT AIDS CONFERENCE MEETING WITH CIVIL SOCIETY,

STRESSES COMMITMENT TO STIGMA-FREE MODEL WORKPLACE AT UNITED NATIONS

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN ADDRESS TO INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE, URGES ENFORCEMENT

OF LEGISLATION OUTLAWING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, yesterday, 3 August:

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO CIVIL SOCIETY HEARINGS FOR HIGH-LEVEL AIDS MEETING:  ‘WE MUST

KEEP OUR FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR, NAVIGATE THE LONGER ROAD MAP AT THE SAME TIME’

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AIDS overwhelmingly KILLS PEOPLE IN MOST PRODUCTIVE YEARS,

SO BUSINESS should SUPPORT UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO HIV PREVENTION, TREATMENT, CARE

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY CITES SOME ENCOURAGING TRENDS IN COMBATING

HIV/AIDS, YET UNACCEPTABLE RATE OF NEW INFECTIONS; CALLS ON ALL TO BRIDGE GAPS