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:

LONG-TERM, SUSTAINABLE FINANCE NEEDED FOR GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS,

MALARIA, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS STOCKHOLM MEETING

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s remarks to the Replenishment Meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Stockholm, 15 March:

MEDIA EXECUTIVES JOIN FORCES TO FIGHT AIDS AT MIPTV

 

NEW YORK, 28 February 2005 -- At the invitation of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, chief executive officers from leading international media companies will meet in Cannes, France, as part of the UN-backed Global Media AIDS Initiative (GMAI).  The high-level event will take place on 12 April during MIPTV, the world’s audiovisual and digital content market.

Under-Secretary-General says unsustainable debt burdens worsen

 

Hiv/aids situation in least developed countries

He Calls for Greater Awareness, Active Engagement to Cope with Pandemic

Secretary-General Renews Dr. Piot’s Appointment As UNAIDS Executive Director

(Reissued as received.)

educating girls on protection a necessity, not an option, Secretary-General

stresses in remarks to world aids day event

 

Real, Positive Change Will Allow Women to Play

Their Role Fully in Struggle against HIV/AIDS, He Says

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the World AIDS Day event at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York, yesterday, 1 December:

On World AIDS Day, General Assembly President calls for concrete,

 

coordinated action against pandemic

 

Following is the message by General Assembly President Jean Ping, on the occasion of World AIDS Day, 1 December: