PRESS CONFERENCE ON 2001 WORLD DISASTERS REPORT

This year's World Disasters Report demonstrates that disasters are shaping development instead of being a blip on the development curve, Peter Walker, the report's founding editor, told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press conference by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

PRESS CONFERENCE BY JOINT UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMME ON HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

PRESS CONFERENCE BY AIDS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

The International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) endorsed the General Assembly special session's Declaration of Commitment, despite its failure explicitly to name homosexuals and sex workers as vulnerable groups, Richard Burzynski, the council's executive director said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHAIRMAN OF AIDS ROUND TABLE 4

A “vast and rapid increased funding” would be needed to support national efforts of developing countries in the fight against HIV/AIDS, President Benjamin Mkapa of the United Republic of Tanzania said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY HARM REDUCTION GROUPS

Injecting drugs was one of the most efficient ways of spreading HIV/AIDS, Dr. Diane Riley of the International Harm Reduction Association told correspondents this afternoon during a press conference at Headquarters.

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 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 ON EUROPEAN 'HOSPITAL SOLIDARITY' INITIATIVE

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE

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.