HIV

US Heath Secretary elected to Chair Global AIDS Fund Board

31 January 2003
A senior United States health official has been elected to head the executive board of the global anti-AIDS fund championed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Annan welcomes Bush's $15 billion pledge for global fight against HIV/AIDS

29 January 2003
The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, today welcomed the announcement by United States President George W. Bush of a total of $15 billion in funding to help in the global fight against HIV/AIDS.

World must galvanize to fight AIDS, stave off southern Africa's total collapse - UN

29 January 2003
Although swift food aid deliveries have mitigated a humanitarian crisis in southern Africa, a horrifying new disaster looms as HIV/AIDS ravages the region, threatening the very existence of whole countries, two United Nations envoys warned today after a weeklong inter-agency mission to the region.

UN development agency teams with global fund to fight AIDS in Argentina

28 January 2003
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has signed an agreement with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which will provide $12 million to fight AIDS in Argentina over the next two years.

UN health agency welcomes move by companies to licence some HIV/AIDS drugs

24 January 2003
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today welcomed new initiatives by some companies to license their patents for certain HIV/AIDS drugs to generic manufacturers, resulting in increased competition, reduced prices, and greater access by poorer people to needed medicines.

UN, sex workers hold first-ever talks in bid to find ways to halt spread of HIV/AIDS

22 January 2003
Representatives from governments and sex workers associations joined United Nations officials in Geneva today for the start of unprecedented talks aimed at identifying strategies to halt the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Stephen Lewis

AIDS in Africa can be beat with adequate resources, UN envoy says

8 January 2003
The top United Nations envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa said today that his recent two-week tour of the southern part of the continent had reinforced his fundamental conviction that a concerted effort between the African people and the international community can defeat the deadly disease.