PRESS BRIEFING BY UNICEF GOODWILL AMBASSADOR HARRY BELAFONTE

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHAIRMAN OF AIDS ROUND TABLE 2

Lack of respect for human rights drove the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the extent to which human rights were neglected or promoted was a major factor in determining the spread and speed of the infection’s progression to AIDS, Grzegorz Opala, Minister of Health of Poland and Chairman of Round Table 2 of the special session on HIV/AIDS, told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference. 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEVELOPMENT MINISTER OF SWEDEN

Sweden would contribute an additional $60 million to the fight against HIV/AIDS during the next few years, that country’s Minister for Development Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy announced today at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY GLOBAL BUSINESS COUNCIL ON HIV/AIDS

In the fight against HIV/AIDS, businesses have done less than 10 per cent of what they should have been doing so far, Richard C. Holbrooke, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and President and CEO of the Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS, told correspondents this morning during a press conference at Headquarters.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY HEALTH MINISTER OF ROMANIA

The Government of Romania today concluded major agreements with four pharmaceutical companies to reduce the price of anti-retroviral drugs and make them accessible to the nearly 7,000 HIV-infected children in the country, its Minister of Health and Family, Dr. Daniela Bartos, announced today at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY KENYA

The enactment of legislation to make cheaper anti-retroviral drugs available to HIV/AIDS sufferers did not automatically confer accessibility to the medicines, Kenyan Public Health Minister Sam Ongeri told correspondents this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES

Médecins sans Frontières -- Doctors without Borders –- stressed the importance of preventive efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.  The conference was part of a number of special events being held in connection with the General Assembly special session on AIDS.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF SENEGAL

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF IRELAND

PRESS CONFERENCE BY REPRESENTATIVES OF ‘LOVELIFE SOUTH AFRICA’

At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, representatives of “loveLife South Africa” said the project worked because it was an HIV/AIDS prevention programme designed for young people by young people themselves.