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 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.

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 PRIME MINISTER OF IRELAND

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