Asia

Poverty, health - big challenges for Asia-Pacific region, UN official tells meeting

29 October 2001
Poverty and health concerns top the agenda of a conference between leaders of Asia-Pacific sub-regional organizations and the United Nations regional economic and social commission, which opened today in Port Vila, Vanuatu.

Some Asian countries on brink of potentially explosive AIDS epidemics, report warns

4 October 2001
There is clear potential for extensive spread of HIV in Asia if preventive action "is too little or too late," according to a new report released on the eve of an international AIDS conference organized in part by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).