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Piot

lines on the record: 81
first: 2000-01-10
most recent: 2005-07-18
sittings or episodes: 6
sources: un-security-council

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“We have also commissioned work from the London School of Economics and are now collaborating with the Government of the Netherlands in the development of a research agenda on the linkages between AIDS, security and conflict. Finally, the second great task relates to classic security matters. The unstated goal underpinning resolution 1308 (2000) is that all peacekeepers and all uniformed personnel must be given the knowledge and means to protect themselves and others from HIV. That goal has not been achieved as yet, so I hope that the Security Council will make that an explicit and time- bound goal and ensure that peacekeeping missions are given the means to meet their responsibilities with respect to HIV, and that they will be held accountable for their performance on responding to AIDS.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“We must start today planning for the long-term future in our action on AIDS. That is one of the big challenges for us at UNAIDS. We recently did a study, together with the Shell oil company, on the development of scenarios for AIDS in Africa by 2025 - 20 years from now. Those scenarios clearly show how the worst-affected countries will be plainly destabilized in all their aspects by the AIDS epidemic. As requested by the Council at its last review two years ago, we are also building and reviewing the evidence base on the long-term implications of AIDS on security. This afternoon, for example, I will be joining the Council for Foreign Relations here to launch a new report we co-funded that presents some preliminary evidence of the links between AIDS and national security, which should help to inform our policy agenda going forward.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“Secondly, there is the need to ensure the consistent implementation of those AIDS programmes. We just heard the quite disturbing data from the survey in Liberia, and it is clear that we still have a long way to go in making sure that, at every level in the hierarchy, commanders understand that they will be held accountable for what they are doing on AIDS as much as on other essential military operations. Turning to the future, I would like to outline two great tasks that I believe we face in relation to AIDS and security. The first task is to expand our knowledge of the broader impact of AIDS on human security and national stability in the most-affected countries, and also those in conflict and post-conflict situations. How those challenges will actually play out in countries over the longer term is not fully known.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“The first is the need significantly to expand access to HIV testing and counselling. As we heard, that is a priority for UNAIDS and DPKO. Our guidance on HIV testing continues to emphasize the importance of counselling and testing in every setting. While national policies vary with regard to HIV testing during recruitment and active service, the evidence clearly demonstrates that the provision of voluntary confidential counselling and testing services is far more likely than mandatory testing to result in favourable behaviour change. The problem is that neither is offered at a scale that is big enough. Troops and civilians alike must therefore have unrestricted access to HIV testing and counselling during deployment, and - crucially - we must step up efforts to encourage them to do so.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“Each programme includes HIV education, condom promotion and distribution, the strengthening of counselling and testing services, and improving the skills of health personnel to provide HIV-specific care and treatment. A small, but nonetheless growing number of defence, military and political leaders now fully understands the need to address AIDS and has begun to make what we hope will be sustained investments. However, we are still too far from the point at which responding to AIDS is considered to be a part of core military business everywhere. That, again, will take strong leadership not only here in the Council, but in every single country. Before concluding, let me highlight a few challenges. There are two key challenges in working with uniformed services, as set out in our progress report.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“This was not the formal intention of resolution 1308 (2000), but it has become clear that, if we do not deal with troop-providing armies, dealing with HIV only among peacekeepers is not going to fix the problem. Thus, resolution 1308 (2000) really paved the way for us in UNAIDS to engage uniformed services as key partners in the response to AIDS. Today, UNAIDS is assisting 53 Member States with comprehensive programmes to address AIDS among uniformed services. As part of that work, we have signed formal partnership agreements with 15 ministries of defence, most recently with the Indian Government, covering about 1.3 million active uniformed personnel.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“In addition, we are now working with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Caribbean Community secretariat in developing comprehensive AIDS programmes for uniformed services. Despite all that has been achieved since 2000, it is clear that there is still a long way to go, as we just heard - a fact made evident by the recent reports of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers. The adoption by the General Assembly last month of a comprehensive strategy to eliminate sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations peacekeeping operations is a major step forward. I would say that zero tolerance for any violation of the code of conduct would also go a long way towards stopping the spread of HIV. Let me now turn to the wider issue of national uniformed services, where international peacekeepers are drawn from and return to.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“Guehenno has said. I will not repeat what he so clearly noted in his statement, but I would like to add a few more things. In addition to what we heard, some 1 million AIDS-awareness cards have been distributed in 13 languages through peacekeepers and national security forces. A peer education kit, available in 11 languages, is becoming an integral part of the military training curricula in several troop-contributing countries. With the increasing focus on regional troop and mission management for peacekeeping, we have actively engaged with key regional bodies. We have supported and are supporting the African Union with its AIDS programmes for African Union peacekeeping forces, as well as African militaries. We are now helping the African Union Security and Peace Council in its AIDS-related programmes for stand-by forces.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“In response to resolution 1308 (2000), I established an Office on AIDS, Security and Humanitarian Response in the UNAIDS secretariat, which has been working - as we just heard from Under-Secretary-General Guehenno - with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). I would also like to thank Denmark, which allowed us to jumpstart that initiative through support for our offices in Copenhagen. The strategy of UNAIDS and DPKO, building on our formal agreement of January 2001, has been to ensure that the United Nations sets the highest possible standards in protecting from HIV both peacekeepers and the populations with which they are in contact. I would like to wholeheartedly commend DPKO for its achievements in mainstreaming AIDS responses into every United Nations peacekeeping mission. I can just confirm everything that Mr.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“So, in sum, in these five years, the global response to AIDS has entered a new era: the era of the implementation of large-scale programmes. However, sadly, it is true that the threat posed by the AIDS epidemic has not dwindled at all. Last year, more people than ever became infected with HIV and more people died of AIDS than in any previous year, reflecting both a massive failure of HIV-prevention programmes and of treatment programmes. That is the broad context within which the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and its partners are now addressing AIDS and security. I would like to take this opportunity to present the UNAIDS progress report, "On the front line", which all Council members have received and which details our actions in that area.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“Forty heads of State or Government, or their deputies, now personally lead their countries' response to AIDS, including in Council members Benin and China. Secondly, there is financial momentum. An unprecedented $8 billion is likely to be spent on the AIDS response in low- and middle-income countries this year, up from $1.5 billion when resolution 1308 (2000) was adopted. That is more than a fivefold increase, and it is reflected in domestic budgets and the budgets of the wealthy countries. Thirdly, there is finally a momentum of results. Because of stepped-up efforts, there are new successes in almost every region of the world, with real signs of success in the Bahamas, Cambodia, Ghana and Kenya, adding to early achievements in Brazil, Thailand and Uganda.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“That is why I am happy that Ambassador Richard Holbrooke is here today. I would say that without his push, this would not have happened. From my experience in my advocacy work to promote the response to AIDS, I can tell the Council that the debate in the Security Council and the resolution opened many doors for dealing with AIDS that previously had been closed. It is also because of that transformation that I believe that today, for the first time ever, we have a real opportunity to halt and begin to reverse this devastating epidemic, as called for in Millennium Development Goal 6. Indeed, reversing the spread of AIDS is crucial if we are to make any progress in meeting the broader Millennium Development Goals. Today, there is true momentum in the fight against AIDS. First, there is undoubted political momentum.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“Mr. Piot: I thank you, Mr. President, for the invitation to brief the Security Council on the implementation of resolution 1308 (2000). When we look at the history of the fight against AIDS, there is no doubt that resolution 1308 (2000) is a milestone in the response to the epidemic. By underscoring the fact that the spread of HIV/AIDS, if unchecked, may pose a risk to stability and security, the Security Council, through resolution 1308 (2000), has transformed how the world views AIDS. I say "transformed" because many now view AIDS as a threat to national security and stability, in addition to being a threat to development and public health alone. While today it sounds normal to place AIDS in that context, it was definitely a very bold step five years ago. It took real leadership.”
2005-07-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5228 (2005) · source
“AIDS is not going to disappear in the next few years. As AIDS in peacekeeping has now become a central issue in our work, I think we have to give priority to finding the means to deal with it. I do not foresee any problems there. In conclusion, there are still many challenges ahead. Preventing HIV/AIDS among peacekeeping troops can best be achieved by first intensifying prevention programmes among young people and then by having good linkage between national programmes and special armed forces programmes, a point that has been made by virtually everybody here. But, as the Council President says, we have to run faster than the epidemic. I thank you all very much and we will provide a detailed joint report next year.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“Guehenno already emphasized, we will step up our efforts to evaluate the impact of our programmes and to determine the scope of the problem. For example, we included evaluation of the programmes' impact on troops as part of the follow-up indicators to the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, which emerged from the General Assembly's special session on that topic. Another point that was underscored is the need for more thorough analysis and better documentation on the relationship between AIDS, security and stability. We are trying to lay the groundwork for that and I think in 2004 we will be able to provide Council members with more evidence-based reports. In regard to a permanent position within the Department of Peacekeeping Operations on AIDS matters, I think it is absolutely essential.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“There, we do not yet have good coordination and implementation of HIV/AIDS prevention measures, but we have begun cooperation with a number of regional peacekeeping operations and I believe we can apply the same methods and principles that have been proven in the fight against this epidemic. We now are in the process of policy discussions in order for such operations to become a reality. A number of representatives rightly raised the problem of evaluating the scope of the problem. As to the possible contribution of peacekeeping operations to the spread of HIV among populations in conflict areas, I do not think there is any very direct evidence of that yet. But this is going to be one of the central themes we will be working on in future. As Mr.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“I thank all the delegations for their support of our joint activities and in particular for their commitment to this question. I remember the first debates on HIV/AIDS in the Security Council. Everyone who was there at the time will remember that the atmosphere was not as positive and supportive as it is today. At that time there also were very few results to report. Together we have clearly made significant progress in implementing Security Council resolution 1308 (2000), but much remains to be done. As emphasized by several Council members, there are now more peacekeeping operations at the regional level.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“I urge Member States to ensure that all uniformed services, including future and returning peacekeepers, are able to participate in ongoing HIV programmes. Our goal, pursued jointly with DPKO, is a simple one. We want to ensure that peacekeepers and all uniformed personnel are leaders in the fight against AIDS - as wejust heard. AIDS is not only the great moral challenge of our time. It is also a massive barrier to development, the cause of economic crisis, and a fundamental threat to security and to the basic stability of many nations. We thank the Security Council for the part it has played in recognizing and meeting that challenge, and look to its continued leadership in doing so.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“However, the extent of action among peacekeepers and uniformed services is already evident. HIV represents a challenge to every one of the 42,000 soldiers and police officers under United Nations command. Many are serving in high- prevalence regions - a third are in Africa - and all face the strain of separation from families and of stressful working conditions. Unless the HIV challenge is met, the sustainability of those operations - and their invaluable contribution to global security - will be under threat. But for the personnel involved, a peacekeeping mission is only a relatively small part of their career. We cannot rely only on HIV education efforts delivered in the context of peacekeeping operations.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“While part of our action is directed at regions where the epidemic is newly emerging and therefore most containable, such as Eastern Europe and throughout Asia, we also need to attend to those States where AIDS has so eroded national capacity that massive and coordinated delivery of emergency assistance for development is needed to stave off State collapse. When the Security Council first considered AIDS in January 2000, it was truly breaking new ground. What the Council achieved then has been of lasting merit. It set in train a process which has enabled us to place peacekeepers and uniformed services in the forefront of effective global AIDS responses. In the new year, I look forward to presenting to the Council a detailed progress report on results obtained in relation to resolution 1308 (2000).”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“In the worst-affected regions, AIDS now constitutes a full-blown crisis of human capacity. It is profoundly exacerbating economic instability and food insecurity, and may even affect governance and lead to State failure. The coming generation of orphans will require unprecedented levels of support. Last month, the United Nations Chief Executive Board approved a plan, submitted by the World Food Programme and UNAIDS, for intensified United Nations system action on AIDS in Southern Africa - a plan that calls for an all-out effort combining longer-term development and emergency-type humanitarian support, because both are necessary today in those countries that are most affected.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“The results of that first study are both sobering and hope-giving. They have identified gaps for better action by all of us. We have also placed special emphasis on recruiting gender advisers in conflict and post-conflict situations, as members heard earlier. Complementing the emphasis on uniformed services, we have intensified our actions targeting all United Nations system staff. The AIDS awareness card for peacekeepers, for example, is being adapted for use among all humanitarian workers, and the uniformed services peer education kit is serving as a model to extend HIV-related peer education to all United Nations staff. Thirdly and finally, let me just mention briefly the wider context in which AIDS constitutes a threat to global security, as presaged in resolution 1308 (2000) - although it also extends further.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“Young recruits - both men and women - are a particular focus, because like other young adults, they are those primarily at risk. One aim has been to institutionalize training on AIDS into training curricula for uniformed services. This has been achieved in Ukraine's defence forces, with support from UNAIDS and, in particular, UNFPA. Similar efforts have targeted border guards in West Bengal and military and police forces in Uruguay, and are beginning among law enforcement agencies in the Russian Federation and Belarus. In order to allow Wider lessons to be drawn, UNAIDS is publishing case studies of HIV prevention and care among armed forces and United Nations peacekeepers in Eritrea - as can be seen from the report that is before Council members - and it will also do so shortly in the case of Ukraine and Thailand.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“We are now working extensively with armed forces to ensure that HIV awareness and prevention takes place prior to deployment and that it is reinforced at demobilization. At least 38 countries worldwide now have a national strategy addressing AIDS in the uniformed services, which was one of the goals of resolution 1308 (2000). UNAIDS - including our co-sponsors, especially the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund - is engaged in approximately 50 countries, working with young recruits, peacekeepers, police and immigration officers in the prevention of HIV and to strengthen HIV care. We have produced key tools - programming guides and a peer-education kit.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“Secondly, AIDS responses among peacekeepers need to be backed up by concerted leadership. Defence ministers and chiefs of staff worldwide ought have AIDS on their radar screens to a greater extent. Thirdly, sustainability is a major challenge: peacekeepers are rotated through their missions in relatively short time frames, which makes it imperative that mission responses be reinforced in the ongoing programmes of uniformed services. Let me now turn to my second point: the wider issue of AIDS in the uniformed services. Peacekeepers are drawn from, and demobilized to, national uniformed services. By working with uniformed services, in both troop-contributing and other countries, we establish the norms of conduct for uniformed personnel, and model effective AIDS response activities.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“Guehenno about some of the details of the process, as well as about the achievements. It is also true, however, that countries hosting peacekeeping missions are increasingly calling for the mandatory testing of peacekeeping troops. I remain convinced that this is a problem better solved upstream than downstream - that is, with sound policies in place, voluntary HIV testing should be a normal part of defence force operations. While we have made undoubted progress in responding to AIDS as it has an impact on peacekeeping operations, major challenges remain. First, as we heard earlier, we are still hampered by a lack of reliable data on the spread of HIV among peacekeepers and in conflict-ridden countries. UNAIDS is therefore ensuring that we have better baseline measures and the capacity to measure progress against them.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“We have produced an AIDS awareness card with a pocket for a condom. It has been produced in 10 languages so far, with Chinese soon to be added. We are now providing 50,000 cards per year to peacekeeping missions and to troop-contributing countries for use in pre-deployment training. Responding to a debate in the Council, I established, in November 2001, an Expert Panel on HIV Testing in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, chaired by Australian High Court judge, The Honourable Michael Kirby, with the wide participation of uniformed services, as well as of DPKO. Its report has informed the formulation of DPKO policy, and I am heartened to see that DPKO is now clarifying its policy on testing to support the more extensive use of voluntary HIV counselling and testing in the context of peacekeeping missions. Earlier, we heard from Mr.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“Thirdly, we are expanding the response to AIDS as a pre-eminent humanitarian and security challenge. Let me now consider each of those issues in turn. First, as we heard from Mr. Guehenno, UNAIDS and DPKO are now undertaking a solid collaborative effort; I will not repeat what he said. As a result, working jointly we have been able to ensure that responses to AIDS have permeated every peacekeeping operation. The full-time AIDS policy advisers in major peacekeeping operations work on a daily basis on HIV prevention and care initiatives at mission level and with United Nations theme groups on HIV/AIDS and the UNAIDS country officers in the context of the various missions. We are also currently establishing a comprehensive information base for the targeting and evaluation of HIV activities among peacekeepers.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“Nevertheless, the resolve on the part of the Security Council has been integral to winning the support of national Governments in responding in a more concerted fashion to the threat of AIDS in the peacekeeping context. But more than that, it has opened the door to UNAIDS, working with defence and civil defence forces in many countries, and it also signalled a need to address the myriad ways in which AIDS undermines regional and human security. UNAIDS has addressed AIDS and security in three ways. First, we have taken action in conjunction with Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) in implementing the aspects of resolution 1308 (2000) which relate to peacekeeping forces, as we heard earlier from Under-Secretary-General Guehenno. Secondly, we are spearheading a wider response to AIDS among uniformed services.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“The Council's actions laid the groundwork for the prominence given to AIDS as a security issue in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, adopted by the General Assembly in June 2001. Subsequent resolutions of the Security Council - 1325 (2000) in relation to women, 1379 (2001) in relation to children and 1327 (2001) concerning the Brahimi report - have all reinforced the determination of the Security Council to ensure that global responses to conflict situations address the AIDS dimension. I must note with some regret, however, that the Security Council has not taken the opportunity to expressly address AIDS in a number of recent resolutions establishing and extending United Nations missions, especially given that some of these missions are operating in regions which already have major HIV epidemics.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“Mr. Piot: Thank you, Mr. President, for this opportunity to brief the Security Council on action to implement resolution 1308 (2000), in relation to AIDS and security. I am particularly pleased to update the Council during Angola's presidency. As members are well aware, in many places the tragic legacy of conflict has been the spread of HIV. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is redoubling its efforts to work with Angola's leaders to ensure that the peace dividend in Angola does not become the casualty of a more insidious enemy - AIDS. When the Security Council first considered the issue of AIDS in January 2000 and subsequently adopted resolution 1308 (2000), it reshaped the global landscape of the fight against AIDS.”
2003-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4859 (2003) · source
“When the General Assembly holds its special session on AIDS in June, all Member States will have the chance to pledge their commitment to the fight. That session is an opportunity for more than fine words - it needs to produce tangible outcomes. So the commitments of 2001 need to be real: real money deposited in real bank accounts to cover the real, more than $3 billion shortfall just to meet Africa's most urgent needs for prevention and basic care; real reductions in drug prices for poor countries; real leadership to tackle the stigma and galvanize national action against AIDS; real participation of people with HIV in decision-making. Only when these commitments become a reality can we hope to respond adequately to the reality of the epidemic.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“Every effort must be made to ensure that peacekeepers conduct themselves according to appropriate codes of conduct and have the best possible means to protect themselves and the populations with whom they are in contact. The role of HIV testing in peacekeeping operations is a complex issue, and nothing raises the emotional temperature of these debates more quickly. But for that reason I have decided to establish, in conjunction with Under-Secretary-General Guehenno, a senior expert panel to analyse and formulate a comprehensive position on the issue of HIV testing for peacekeepers and humanitarian personnel. The global response to AIDS gathered momentum last year. It must build even further this year. I am greatly heartened by the Council's close attention to AIDS.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“The agreement will support our ongoing work in, first, training; secondly, in the development of codes of conduct; thirdly, in voluntary and confidential counselling and testing; fourthly, in civil-military cooperation; fifthly, in the care and treatment of affected personnel; sixth, in guaranteeing an uninterrupted supply of male and female condoms; and lastly, in disseminating best practices. At the field level, together with representatives of local populations and non-governmental organizations, we will cooperate to promote sustainable measures to prevent HIV transmission. It is incumbent on the United Nations to set the highest possible standards for the conduct of the troops deployed under its flag.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“So HIV prevention and care must be core concerns because of the interaction of these populations, and therefore preventing the spread of HIV and ensuring the availability of adequate care is equally important to them all. As members just heard, earlier today I joined Jean-Marie Guehenno to sign a cooperation framework agreement between UNAIDS and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. Under this framework, we commit to improving the capacity of peacekeepers to become advocates of and actors for the awareness and prevention of HIV transmission.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“Jean-Marie Guehenno mentioned earlier that a strategy meeting to examine AIDS as a security issue was held in Stockholm in December, involving Governments, military representatives, the United Nations system and representatives of non- governmental organizations. The report and recommendations arising from the meeting are currently being circulated among the meeting's participants and will soon be finished. We have been working with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, alongside our co-sponsors - in particular UNDP, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Population Fund - to focus on the elevated risk of HIV in conflict and humanitarian situations. HIV has an impact on refugees, United Nations and non-governmental organization personnel and host communities.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“A mission to Sierra Leone will take place very shortly. The missions are to assess locally specific risk factors for HIV, prepare AIDS prevention strategies and train trainers in prevention and behaviour change so that peacekeepers can become agents of change and HIV prevention. In July the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Mark Malloch Brown and I wrote to United Nations Resident Coordinators in particular countries affected by conflict to ensure that AIDS, as a humanitarian and security issue, was at the top of the agenda of the United Nations system in these countries.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“This we have done with updated epidemiological and response information from the Mapping the AIDS Pandemic project, with information management networks for West Africa, in South and South-East Asia and in Latin America. At last month's African Development Forum we released a UNAIDS country-by-country report that documents both the impact of AIDS on Africa country-by-country and the strengthening of national responses. We are now expanding this work to other parts of the world. Fourthly, I undertook to make specific plans to address HIV/AIDS in emergencies and the uniformed services. The UNAIDS Humanitarian Coordination Unit, established in June 2000, has, with the significant involvement of our co-sponsors, made country assessment missions to Ethiopia and Eritrea, East Timor and Burundi.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“This work culminated in its formal launch by Secretary-General Annan in Addis Ababa at the African Development Forum, where he declared, "that from now on across all of Africa it will be the focus for a new spirit of cooperation in building the response to AIDS." The second commitment I made a year ago was to have regular follow-up with the Security Council. Here we are today. This we have done at Security Council meetings and in our regular reports focusing on AIDS in relation to peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts. The third commitment I made was to intensify information flow on international responses to the epidemic.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“Over 3 million people died as a result of AIDS - more annual deaths than ever. This global situation is the context within which the UNAIDS secretariat and co- sponsors have been addressing Security Council resolution 1308 (2000). In January, a year ago, I made four key commitments to the Security Council. The first was to intensify the International Partnership against AIDS in Africa. This we have done, and its Framework for Action, with specific milestones, has been widely endorsed, including by the Organization of African Unity summit in Lome last July. Over the past 12 months much of the work of the UNAIDS secretariat and co-sponsors in Africa has focused on the development of this Partnership.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“However, much, if not most, of the global agenda on AIDS is unfinished, including the continuing inequities in access to effective care and treatments and even to life-saving materials, such as condoms. Last year saw increasing acceptance by Governments and industry of the moral legitimacy of equity pricing. This is the idea that poorer countries should be able to buy essential drugs at lower prices than wealthy countries. But creating mechanisms to implement equitable access has been painfully and unacceptably slow. Let us not forget that the progress on comprehensive HIV care will have to advance on multiple fronts simultaneously. Meanwhile, as members have heard, the HIV epidemic advances. In the report we released for World AIDS Day last month we estimated that there were 5.3 million new HIV infections around the globe last year.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“Its theme, "AIDS: The greatest leadership challenge", was given weight by the seven heads of State or Government who attended and their interaction with leaders of civil society, including people with HIV/AIDS and youth. Ms. Graca Machel articulated the sense of urgency at the meeting, saying, "any international support can only be additional to our own efforts and it will be our own efforts that bring us rewards in this struggle". One recent important opportunity has been new debt relief agreements, which have liberated resources and helped integrate AIDS into national planning. They have already resulted in some of the poorest countries in Africa allocating $20 million more for AIDS in 2001 out of their own budgets, thanks to debt relief.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“Many heads of State or Government at the Millennium Summit highlighted AIDS. Initiatives placing HIV in the mainstream of development took place at the G-8 meeting in Okinawa, in the European Commission and among many bilateral donors. Regional efforts have intensified as well, notably, in the Caribbean under the auspices of the Caribbean Community, with the commitment of the Association of South-East Asian Nations to a summit on HIV in South-East Asia and with a summit of the Organization of African Unity coming up in April in Nigeria. Last month the Economic Commission for Africa hosted the African Development Forum for the second time.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“I can think of no better legacy to leave the world than to have ensured that the United Nations Security Council now regards the global fight against AIDS as part of its core business. Thank you for that. The Security Council has helped transform the way in which AIDS is viewed. Only when we understand AIDS as a fundamental issue of human security can we grasp the extent of destruction it has caused, how insidiously it has exacerbated conditions of poverty and vulnerability, and the long-term effects of its impact. The global resolve to tackle AIDS has increased markedly in the six months since the Council's meeting held on 17 July. Many countries have revamped their AIDS plans, have made them more central to decision- making across government and have sought new resources and ways to direct them to the local community level.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“Dr. Piot: Just one year has passed since the Security Council made history with its first debate on AIDS, and already I am appearing before the Council for the third time on this subject. As someone who is immersed full-time in global AIDS politics and practice, I can tell the Council that its deliberations on AIDS have been enormously helpful. I do not think that can be overestimated. The simple fact that the world's ultimate tribunal on questions of peace and security devotes its attention to AIDS sends a very powerful message. In acknowledging the significant difference the Security Council has made, I must also pay tribute to its leading advocate, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke.”
2001-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4259 (2001) · source
“It is our role as leaders to keep alive the hope - hope that is such a precious commodity when it comes to fighting AIDS; there is not much more hope besides this leadership. I thank the Council very much for its leadership.”
2000-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4172 (2000) · source
“Finally, I would like to thank the Council for its leadership and, in particular, you, Mr. President; it has been an honour to be present and to speak at a meeting chaired by you. I would also like to pay tribute to Ambassador Holbrooke for his truly entrepreneurial leadership, which shows that risk-taking should be considered as something very positive in international affairs and when it comes to fighting AIDS. Finally, as I said, for me the Durban Conference was truly a conference of hope, not because of scientific or technological breakthroughs - we have learned that it is not technology that is slowing this epidemic down - but because of the people, empowered by their leaders and empowered by resources. The Council's draft resolution and resolute engagement provides further hope.”
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“Whether it is considered merely as a health or medical problem, or as a development and security problem, too, dramatically changes the way we tackle it. It dramatically changes the kind of resources that can be used to tackle the problem. We have all seen and learned that this is such a complicated and overwhelming problem that it is too heavy to put on the shoulders of one sector or one individual. I would like to thank the Council for holding this debate and for considering the draft resolution. This draft resolution will help us tremendously - not only UNAIDS and our co-sponsors, but also the community groups and Governments - in our very difficult work. But we must also help to implement the draft resolution, as rightly requested by the representative of Uganda.”
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“I believe that, working with our partners in the United States Agency for International Development, the Department for International Development and the Swedish International Development Agency, we have already set up a programme to ensure consistency and to create a single database. (spoke in English) The draft resolution that the Council is considering is historic: it would be the first recognition in this body, and by the international community, of a link between AIDS - an infection - and human security and development. The link with development has been made by the Economic and Social Council in earlier resolutions. I think that we cannot underestimate how important it is and how much it matters how we conceptualize AIDS. It really makes a difference.”
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“We would also have to consider how to provide funding to implement the conclusions of such a conference, so that it does not remain a dead letter but produces real results for people living with HIV/AIDS throughout the world. We would inevitably have to include other considerations that go well beyond public health and access to medicines, such as world trade, tariffs and the protection of intellectual property. The second issue raised by France related to the database that we are in the process of setting up. As I said in my report, we have already begun our work. For some countries it has already been set up.”
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