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.)

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:

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.

RESPONSES TO HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC REMAIN INSUFFICIENT

 

Highly Affected Countries among World’s Poorest,

With Lowest Levels of National Health Expenditure

UN MARKS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FAMILIES WITH FOCUS ON HIV/AIDS

(Reissued as received.)

MEDIA LEADERS FROM AROUND GLOBE EXPAND RESPONSE

 

TO UN’S CALL TO FIGHT AIDS EPIDEMIC

 

MTV Networks’ Bill Roedy to Chair

Global Media AIDS Initiative Leadership Committee

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

IN VIDEO MESSAGE FOR GLOBAL AIDS INITIATIVE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ‘YOU

CAN SAVE LIVES BY ATTACKING IGNORANCE IN EVERY CORNER OF THE PLANET’

Following is the text of the video message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the Global Media AIDS Initiative in Cannes today:

Dear friends,

LEADERSHIP COMMITMENT NEEDED TO HALT RAPIDLY GROWING HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC IN EASTERN

EUROPE, CENTRAL ASIA, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO MOSCOW MEETING

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the ministerial meeting on an “Urgent Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemics in the Commonwealth of Independent States”, being held in Moscow, 31 March-1 April: