HIV/AIDS: Global Crisis - Global Action

The HIV/AIDS epidemic has become a global crisis that demands global action.

In the past 20 years, more than 56 million people have been infected with HIV and some 22 million have died of AIDS-related illnesses, 4.3 million of them children.

Only an extraordinary worldwide response can reverse its spread. To move this fight forward, the United Nations General Assembly in September 2000 decided to convene a Special Session on HIV/AIDS. The meeting will be held in New York on 25-27 June 2001—almost 20 years to the day after the first clinical evidence of AIDS was reported.

The Special Session on HIV/AIDS is a watershed event. Top-level national delegations will review action plans that have proven most effective. They will consider new steps and new partnerships. Interactive round-table discussions will bring together government leaders, AIDS activists, nongovernmental organizations and private sector partners.

The aims of the Special Session are necessarily ambitious. The Session must lay the solid foundation for a global consensus on the essential elements of a successful response.

More information:
- Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on HIV/AIDS (United Nations)
- UNAIDS The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

Related news:
- United Nations: Report about AIDS (23/2/2001)

Datum: 21/05/2001

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