IN REMARKS TO CIVIL SOCIETY HEARING AT AIDS HIGH-LEVEL MEETING, SECRETARY-GENERAL

CALLS FOR GREATER INVOLVEMENT OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV

 

Sixtieth General Assembly

High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS

Panel Discussion 1 (PM)

aids panel focuses on need to implement prevention measures, increase testing,

strengthen education, end stigma to reduce hiv infections

 

Sixtieth General Assembly

High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS

Civil Society Hearing (AM)

INVOLVING PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV IN POLICYMAKING, ADDRESSING STIGMA, DEALING

WITH MARGINALIZED GROUPS AMONG ISSUES AT CIVIL SOCIETY HEARING ON AIDS

Secretary-General Tells Gathering Fight

Background Release

In message to African Union special summit, Secretary-General says

‘fight against aids remains my personal priority’

 

CONFRONT STIGMA, DENIAL THAT FUEL HIV SPREAD, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES

HEALTH MINISTERS AT HIGH-LEVEL SESSION OF GLOBAL FUND

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN WORLD AIDS DAY MESSAGE, DESCRIBES HALTING PANDEMIC

AS PREREQUISITE FOR REACHING OTHER MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on World AIDS Day, to be observed on 1 December:

IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON CHILDREN ‘ONE OF THE CRUELLEST TRAGEDIES OF OUR TIME’,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT LAUNCH OF NEW UN CAMPAIGN

SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT LAUNCH OF UNICEF’S GLOBAL ANTI-AIDS CAMPAIGN, LAMENTS

LACK OF BASIC SAFETY INFORMATION THAT COULD SPARE MILLIONS OF CHILDREN

GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS HAS VITAL ROLE TO PLAY IN STRUGGLE

FOR HUMAN PROGRESS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS