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:

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

LACK OF BASIC SAFETY INFORMATION THAT COULD SPARE MILLIONS OF CHILDREN

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT LAUNCH OF NEW UN CAMPAIGN

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN RESOURCES NEEDED, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS

LONDON REPLENISHMENT MEETING OF GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS

Following is today’s statement by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the replenishment meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in London:

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

FOR HUMAN PROGRESS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

‘LET US SPARE NO EFFORT’ TO ACCELERATE DELIVERY OF LIFE-SAVING PROGRAMMES TO THOSE

 

NEEDING THEM MOST, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS MEETING OF GLOBAL AIDS FUND

Following is the text of a message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Replenishment Meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Rome, 20 June, delivered by Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS:

UNFPA Project Launched to Prevent HIV/AIDS Transmission in Post-Conflict Border

 

Areas of Guinea, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone

(Reissued as received.)

GLOBAL RESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS SIGNIFICANT, BUT INSUFFICIENT TO SCALE

OF EPIDEMIC, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO HIGH-LEVEL UN MEETING

Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, in New York, 2 June:

Four years ago, the United Nations General Assembly met in a special session and unanimously committed itself to addressing the scourge of HIV/AIDS.

HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC ‘GREAT CHALLENGE OF OUR AGE AND OUR GENERATION’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT UN PRESS BRIEFING

Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a press briefing for the General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, in New York, 2 June:

RESPONSES TO HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC REMAIN INSUFFICIENT

 

Highly Affected Countries among World’s Poorest,

With Lowest Levels of National Health Expenditure