BMJ  2006;332:1349 (10 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7554.1349

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UN conference on AIDS settles on compromise statement

Janice Hopkins Tanne

New York

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Last week's UN high level meeting on AIDS in New York agreed on a declaration of commitment that was stronger than some countries would have liked but weaker than what non-governmental and pressure groups wanted. Nevertheless, it goes further than the previous declaration of 2001.

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UN secretary general Kofi Annan said: "The epidemic continues to outpace us. Last year more people died [of AIDS] than ever before"

Credit: RICHARD DREW/AP/EMPICS

The secretary general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, said that the HIV and AIDS epidemic "has become the greatest challenge of our generation... the epidemic continues to outpace us."

He said, "Last year, globally, there were more new infections than ever before, and more people died than ever before. There were more women and girls living with HIV/AIDS than ever before... If we don't step up the fight dramatically, we will not reach the millennium development goal of halting, . . . [Full text of this article]


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