ROUND TABLE ON ‘HIV/AIDS AND PRISONS’ HELD DURING COMMISSION

ON CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS UNAIDS GLOBAL STAFF MEETING THAT PANDEMIC,

WHILE UNPRECEDENTED, IS NOT INSURMOUNTABLE

The following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message to the global staff meeting of UNAIDS at Martigny, 2-5 May:

I am so glad that you have all come together to take stock at this critical time in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

‘Aids is a common enemy that both india and pakistan have to fight together’,

Secretary-General says in message to cricket teams

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the cricket teams of India and Pakistan, in Rawalpindi, today:

UNODC TARGETS HIV/AIDS, DRUG ABUSE IN NEW RADIO SPOTS IN SPANISH

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VIENNA, 22 March (UN Information Service) -- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today released new radio spots in Spanish to encourage authority figures to talk to youth about the dangerous links between HIV/AIDS and drugs.

‘TOGETHER, WE CAN TURN THE GLOBAL TIDE AGAINST HIV/AIDS -– AND WE MUST’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO DUBLIN CONFERENCE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message for the conference “Breaking the Barriers:  Partnership to Fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia”, in Dublin, 23-24 February:

NEW GUIDELINES FOR INCLUDING HIV COUNSELLING, TESTING IN SEXUAL

AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROGRAMMES PUBLISHED

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WORLD MEDIA LEADERS GATHER AT HEADQUARTERS FOR LAUNCH OF AIDS INITIATIVE;

‘IN THE WORLD OF AIDS, SILENCE IS DEATH’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT LAUNCH

OF UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL MEDIA INITIATIVE ON HIV/AIDS

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan's remarks for the launch of the United Nations Global Media Initiative on HIV/AIDS in New York, 15 January:

FAO STUDY EXAMINES IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS IN RURAL AFRICA

ROME, 1 December (FAO) -- The steady advance of HIV/AIDS is devastating rural households in Africa, plunging families into poverty and hunger, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on World Aids Day.

AIDS EPIDEMIC ‘CONTINUES ITS LETHAL MARCH’, AS INTERNATIONAL ACTION STILL FAR

SHORT OF WHAT IS NEEDED, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON WORLD AIDS DAY

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message on the occasion of World AIDS Day, observed 1 December: