HIV/AIDS

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Babatunde Osotimehin, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), to the Abuja+12 Special Follow-up Summit on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Other Related Infectious Diseases, in Abuja on 15 July:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly on implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declarations on HIV/AIDS, in New York on 10 June:

Following are UN Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the lunch with African leaders in AIDS Watch Africa, in Addis Ababa, 26 May:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of Luiz Loures of Brazil as Deputy Executive Director, Programme, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the UN Cares Awards, in New York, 1 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Aids Day, to be observed on 1 December:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’svideo message for the nineteenth International Aids Conference in Washington, D.C., on 22 July:

The Secretary-General has appointed Michel Kazatchkine as his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, one of only two regions in the world where HIV is continuing to grow.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Asha-Rose Migiro of the United Republic of Tanzania, former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, as his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. She will replace Elizabeth Mataka, who the Secretary-General thanked for her outstanding and dedicated service in this role since 2007.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the Global Dialogue on HIV and the Law, in New York on 9 July: