HIV/AIDS

‘SCALED-UP APPROACH TO AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, MALARIA CAN SAVE LIVES’,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GLOBAL FUND BOARD MEETING

Following is the text of remarks today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Second Board Meeting of the Global Fund To Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in New York:

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO ADDRESS BOARD OF GLOBAL FUND

TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO ADDRESS BOARD OF GLOBAL FUND

TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, MALARIA

Secretary-General Kofi Annan will address the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on 23 April at 12 noon in the Economic and Social Council Chamber at Headquarters in New York.  Accredited journalists are invited to attend.  The 23-member Board is holding its second meeting from 22 to 24 April in New York. 

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESSES HEADQUARTERS MEETING FOR WORLD AIDS DAY

This is the text of a statement by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at a town hall-style meeting at Headquarters today in observance of World Aids Day (1 December):

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS TURNING POINT REACHED IN FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS,

IN MESSAGE ON WORLD AIDS DAY

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

JOINT COMMUNIQUÉ FROM SECRETARY-GENERAL AND SEVEN LEADING RESEARCH-BASED

PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES ON ACCESS TO HIV/AIDS CARE AND TREATMENT

Following is the text of a joint communiqué issued today in New York by Secretary-General Kofi Annan and seven pharmaceutical companies:

SECRETARY-GENERAL MEETS CHRISPUS KIYONGA, CHAIRMAN OF TRANSITIONAL

WORKING GROUP ON GLOBAL AIDS AND HEALTH FUND

IN REMARKS TO CARNEGIE COUNCIL, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL DISCUSSES

MYTH, REALITY IN GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS

Following is the text of remarks by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette, made today at the Carnegie Council Worldview Breakfast, New York:

SECRETARY-GENERAL THANKS G-8 LEADERS FOR ‘EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESSION

OF SUPPORT’ IN FIGHT AGAINST AIDS

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to a press event at the conference of G-8 Heads of State in Genoa, Italy:

DECLARATION OF COMMITMENT FIRST GLOBAL ‘BATTLE PLAN’ AGAINST AIDS,

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT TELLS SPECIAL SESSION

Following is the text of the closing statement by Harri Holkeri, President of the General Assembly, at the conclusion of the General Assembly special session on HIV/AIDS today:

An historic special session of the General Assembly has come to an end.