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Satcher

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2000-01-10
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2000-01-10
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un-security-council

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  1. “The Security Council will soon hear from the Secretary of Labor of the United States, as we attempt to gather with our partners throughout the world to make a commitment in the area of labour in dealing with the AIDS epidemic, as we have tried to do in our country. In closing, let me say again how very pleased I am that the Security Council has raised the issue of AIDS in Africa to this level and presented to all of us the challenge of keeping before us the relationships between health and security. We look forward to working with the Security Council in the days, months and years ahead to conquer this global pandemic.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  2. “Our ethics must be as sophisticated as our science, and we must hold each other to that commitment. The interrelationships among health and social, economic and political stability and well-being, and their impact on peace and security, is a point that has been well made in this meeting of the Security Council. We hope that as we work with the Council throughout the world we can keep this in mind. In closing, let me say that our partnerships must be interdisciplinary. Our experience with business and labour response to AIDS in the United States has been really critical - I have mentioned the eradication of polio and Rotary International. We have also benefited from the faith community. We have benefited from other non- governmental organizations and from the military and the role of the military.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  3. “We believe that prevention is the most important investment that we can make in dealing with this epidemic. We are very pleased to be able to work with our partners throughout the world - in Thailand, Uganda, the United States and other places - in the development of a vaccine. In fact that is now in phase III trials in parts of the world. We are committed to continuing that research and that investment. Our Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, has said that our ethics must be as sophisticated as our science. In response to comments that we have heard today, I want to say that together we must make that commitment as we work in prevention, treatment and research and in dealing with orphans throughout the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  4. “We believe that it is important to invest in treatment. I believe that treatment is in and of itself preventive when applied correctly. For example, working together in Tanzania, we learned that the aggressive treatment of sexually transmitted diseases significantly reduced the spread of HIV/AIDS. So we have learned the importance of comprehensive treatment, and we have learned the importance of treating opportunistic infections in people infected with AIDS. But we have also learned that we must continue to work together to provide treatment to all people who are infected with this virus, a commitment that was made by the Vice-President this morning. We are also committed to continuing to invest in research, especially in research to develop a vaccine.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  5. “We have also invested in science, as a result of which we have developed treatments, including the highly active anti- retroviral therapies that are making a difference and have reduced mortality from AIDS by 60 per cent compared to 1995. However, we know that this is not the answer to this epidemic in our country or anywhere else in the world. So our commitment today is to work in global partnership - not just providing the funds that have been committed by the Vice-President and Ambassador Holbrooke - in combating this epidemic throughout the world. We are committed to a balanced approach to this epidemic. We believe that it is important to invest heavily in prevention, including surveillance, so that we can monitor this epidemic throughout the world, including in sub-Saharan Africa.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  6. “Working with our colleagues in Thailand, we learned about what can be accomplished in the military, where AIDS was a major problem, and as a result of working together, we have seen a dramatic decline. So we have learned a lot of lessons by working in partnerships throughout the world, and we hope to continue those kinds of partnerships. We have also learned much from our experience in the United States. As the Council has heard and knows, we have made significant progress in the United States. But, in the words of Robert Frost, we still have promises to keep and miles to go before we sleep. We have learned that it is possible to decrease the onset of HIV, which has gone from a high of 150,000 cases a year in the late 1980s to 40,000 cases a year today.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  7. “When we look at what partnerships and global strategies have already achieved, we have to have hope. Together, we have eradicated smallpox, the last case occurring in the late 19705. We are very close to eradicating polio from the world. In this respect, I must point to the dynamic leadership of Rotary International and of the business community, which is going to be so important to our efforts in this context, working in partnership in areas such as Uganda. Certainly, when I was Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we learned much about what can be accomplished through comprehensive programmes of counselling, education and testing. We appreciate the opportunity we have had to work with our colleagues.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source

  8. “Dr. Satcher: Let me thank the Security Council for this opportunity to be here today and to address it. I have heard that I might well be the first Surgeon-General ever to address the Security Council, and that, for me, represents a tremendous opportunity and challenge. Over 50 years ago Surgeon-General Leonard Scheele, speaking to the first meeting of the World Health Organization, said, that the world cannot exist half healthy and half sick. So we are challenged today by that commitment expressed on behalf of the United States by a Surgeon- General. As the Security Council has heard, AIDS has had and is having a devastating impact on sub-Saharan Africa and on many other areas of the world. But I think that it is also important to point out that, as we have heard, we are not without hope.”

    2000-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4087Resumption1 (2000) · source