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.

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.

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 PRESIDENT OF SENEGAL

ILO DIRECTOR GENERAL INTRODUCES CODE OF PRACTICES ON AIDS

Of the 36 million people infected with HIV/AIDS, 23 million are in the workplace, the Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Juan Somavia,told correspondents this morning during a Headquarters press conference where he introduced the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY MINISTER FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF CANADA

Canada would commit some $73 million for HIV/AIDS programming in Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe, Maria Minna, Minister for International Cooperation of Canada, announced today at a Headquarters press conference being held in conjunction with the special session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS.