DESPITE PROGRESS ON HIV/AIDS, ACTION ‘STILL FAR SHORT OF WHAT IS NEEDED’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the plenary session of the General Assembly on the follow-up to the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, in New York, 22 September:

Two years ago, the world’s nations agreed that defeating HIV/AIDS would require commitment, resources and action.

COMMISSION ON HIV/AIDS AND GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA

TO BE LAUNCHED IN ADDIS ABABA

(Reissued as received)

‘FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS REQUIRES CONSTANT VIGILANCE AND RENEWAL’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is the text of the video message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the fifty-ninth session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok, 1-4 September:

You meet at a decisive moment in the history of your region, and you have chosen to focus on a vital topic.

TO MOUNT EFFECTIVE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS, TOTAL SPENDING MUST RISE

TO $10 BILLION A YEAR BY 2005, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the text of the video message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the International Conference in Support of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in Paris, on 16 July:

AGRICULTURAL RESPONSE TO AIDS CRISIS URGENTLY NEEDED

Ministries of Agriculture Must Include HIV/AIDS

In Their Programmes and Activities, Says UNAIDS and FAO

(Reissued as received.)

EMPLOYERS AND UNIONS JOIN FORCES TO FIGHT HIV/AIDS, IN JOINT STATEMENT

ISSUED AT UN GLOBAL COMPACT DIALOGUE

FEEDING HOPE:  NUTRITION PLAYS KEY ROLE IN HIV/AIDS CARE

FAO/WHO Publish New Manual for People Living with HIV/AIDS

(Reissued as received.)

Geneva/Rome, 25 February (FAO) -- A good diet is one of the simplest means of helping people living with HIV/AIDS and may even help delay the progression of the deadly virus, two UN agencies said today.

Biographical Note                                            SG/A/829*

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT BUSH ON PLEDGE OF STRONGER

UNITED STATES LEADERSHIP IN FIGHT AGAINST AIDS

Following is a statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

            AFR/545

            AIDS/49

            IHA/750

            21 January 2003

HEADS OF MAJOR HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES CALL FOR ACTION TO ADDRESS

SOUTHERN AFRICA’S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS