HIV

Carol Bellamy

UN Children’s Fund challenges G-8 to step up to plate on AIDS crisis

30 May 2003
The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today challenged the leaders of the world’s richest nations meeting at the G-8 summit next week to adopt a “tide-turning approach” to the global AIDS crisis or else face the opprobrium of allowing millions more people to needlessly suffer and die.

Global Compact agrees on historic plan for employers, workers to combat HIV/AIDS

14 May 2003
A meeting of the Global Compact - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's initiative that seeks to advance good corporate citizenship and responsible globalization - has announced an historic agreement between employers and trade unions to cooperate in the worldwide fight against HIV/AIDS.

Experts, including UN, warn of $3.8 billion shortfall in HIV funding by 2005

13 May 2003
A panel of leading public health experts, including those from United Nations agencies, warns today that current annual spending on HIV prevention falls $3.8 billion short of what would be needed by 2005.