In progress at UNHQ

Press Conference


26/06/2001
Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE ON CONGRESS FOR AIDS IN ASIA AND PACIFIC


The upcoming Sixth International Congress for AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) would be a free zone for genuine discussion, cooperation, and interchange among elements of society and government, as well as infected and affected communities, Dennis Altman, one of the gathering's co-Chairs, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

26/06/2001
Press Briefing


HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY UNAIDS


The mutually reinforcing nature of prevention and treatment would be clearly reflected in the declaration to be issued by the special session on HIV/AIDS, said Kathleen Cravero, the Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).  She was speaking this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference of UNAIDS executives, representing three of the seven UNAIDS co-sponsoring agencies.

26/06/2001
Press Briefing


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.

26/06/2001
Press Briefing


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. 

26/06/2001
Press Briefing


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.

26/06/2001
Press Briefing


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.

26/06/2001
Press Briefing


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.