HIV

UNICEF lauds Canada's move to produce cheaper AIDS drugs for poor countries

29 September 2003
The chief of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today lauded Canada's push to quickly enact legislation allowing makers of generic medicines to export cheaper versions of patented HIV/AIDS drugs to poor countries heavily impacted by the pandemic.

UN agencies boost efforts to help African countries fight HIV/AIDS

25 September 2003
As Africa struggles with 30 million of the world's 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS, United Nations agencies are strengthening their efforts to help the continent stop the pandemic from devastating the vulnerable populations in the cities, the armed forces and young people.
Dr. Peter Piot of UNAIDS

UN agencies urge steps to combat all aspects of HIV/AIDS pandemic

22 September 2003
United Nations agencies today used the global forum afforded by a special General Assembly meeting on HIV/AIDS to press for urgent steps to fight the pandemic and all its effects, ranging from providing drugs to 6 million victims in poor nations to feeding the disease's 14 million orphans to educating 2 billion children.

General Assembly high-level meeting discusses progress in fight against HIV/AIDS

22 September 2003
The United Nations General Assembly today convened a high-level meeting to discuss a progress report by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the worldwide fight against HIV/AIDS, two years after Member States agreed to a time-bound set of targets to roll back the disease.
Annan addresses Assembly

AIDS battle has fallen behind schedule and drastic action is needed - Annan

22 September 2003
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the international community to drastically step up its battle against HIV/AIDS if there is to be any hope of starting to reduce the scale and impact of the epidemic by 2005, as pledged in the Declaration of Commitment adopted two years ago.

UN envoy 'enraged' by rich countries for 'neglect' of African AIDS crisis

22 September 2003
Expressing his "overwhelming sense of dismay, anxiety, even dread" at the plight of the nearly 13 million children orphaned by AIDS in Africa, a United Nations envoy told delegates at a conference in Nairobi, Kenya, that he is "enraged" by the behaviour of rich countries, which, by their neglect, have worsened the situation on the continent.

AIDS is world's greatest leadership challenge, high-level UN panel concludes

22 September 2003
AIDS currently represents the international community's greatest leadership challenge, one that must be characterized by candid recognition of the disease's impact on societies and the steps that must be taken in response, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today after a high-level interactive panel discussion on HIV/AIDS held at the United Nations.

UN programme partners with global cricket body to fight HIV/AIDS

18 September 2003
The Joint United Nations programme on AIDS and the International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced that they have joined forces to use the popular sport to raise public awareness of the pandemic, particularly among young people.

Annan's panel on HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa set for launch

16 September 2003
A panel of commissioners appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to study the impacts of HIV/AIDS on Africa's economic development and governance is set to be officially launched tomorrow in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at an event expected to be attended by leaders from the continent.
Danny Glover and Kingsley Moghalu brief journalists

AIDS, malaria and TB greatest threats to human security, official says at UN

9 September 2003
There is no greater threat to individual human security than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, a senior official of the Global Fund set up to help combat those illnesses said today at a briefing at United Nations Headquarters in New York.