Africa: Who/Africa Director Highlights 2006 in Fight Against Aids
By, Angola Press Agency (Luanda), December 1, 2006
The regional director for Africa of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Luís Gomes Sambo, said on Friday that 2006 was an important year in global response to the fight against HIV/AIDS, specially in Africa.
These statements of Luís Sambo are part of the message on occasion of World AIDS Day, marked on December 01 worldwide, under the theme "Primary Responsibility´´.
The Angolan national at the head of the World Health Organisation for Africa said that this is the most important year, because there had been held key events, namely, the top meeting on HIV/AIDS, held last June in the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York, that marked the fifth assessment of the Declaration of Compromise on AIDS and the assessment of Abuja Declaration of 2001, in June 2006.
During this year there was also held the Commitment of Brazzaville Declaration on Universal Access to Prevention, Treatment and Care to HIV/AIDS Victims from March 2006 to 2010, the launching of the acceleration process of the efforts for HIV/AIDS prevention in the African continent, in April 2006 and the fifth anniversary of the Declaration of 14 November, 2001, on access to generic medicines.
He added that the year of 2006 offered a good opportunity of reflection on the lessons of the past and about the strategies that enable to achieve progresses in the framework of universal Access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care, as well as the accomplishment of the Sixth Goal of Millennium Development.
"As it is reflected on achieved progresses, the signs of hope can be seen. There are signs of reduction of HIV/AIDS prevalence in various countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Rwanda and in several cities such as Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, Abidjan in Ivory Coast and Lome in Togo", he underlined.
The African continent is the world's most affected region with the HIV/AIDS, mainly due to the lack of a vaccine and the change in human behaviour.
The number of people infected with the HIV/AIDS with access to antiretrovirals (ARV) in Africa is still growing, from 100,000 in 2003 to more than one million people in last June.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its partners helped 24 African countries hardly affected with the HIV/AIDS to train health professionals in administering antiretrovirals (ARV) and 28 nations have already developed plans to intensify the supply of antiretrovirals, while 20 others set out plans to monitor and assess the ARV.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200612011009.html
The regional director for Africa of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Luís Gomes Sambo, said on Friday that 2006 was an important year in global response to the fight against HIV/AIDS, specially in Africa.
These statements of Luís Sambo are part of the message on occasion of World AIDS Day, marked on December 01 worldwide, under the theme "Primary Responsibility´´.
The Angolan national at the head of the World Health Organisation for Africa said that this is the most important year, because there had been held key events, namely, the top meeting on HIV/AIDS, held last June in the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York, that marked the fifth assessment of the Declaration of Compromise on AIDS and the assessment of Abuja Declaration of 2001, in June 2006.
During this year there was also held the Commitment of Brazzaville Declaration on Universal Access to Prevention, Treatment and Care to HIV/AIDS Victims from March 2006 to 2010, the launching of the acceleration process of the efforts for HIV/AIDS prevention in the African continent, in April 2006 and the fifth anniversary of the Declaration of 14 November, 2001, on access to generic medicines.
He added that the year of 2006 offered a good opportunity of reflection on the lessons of the past and about the strategies that enable to achieve progresses in the framework of universal Access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care, as well as the accomplishment of the Sixth Goal of Millennium Development.
"As it is reflected on achieved progresses, the signs of hope can be seen. There are signs of reduction of HIV/AIDS prevalence in various countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Rwanda and in several cities such as Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, Abidjan in Ivory Coast and Lome in Togo", he underlined.
The African continent is the world's most affected region with the HIV/AIDS, mainly due to the lack of a vaccine and the change in human behaviour.
The number of people infected with the HIV/AIDS with access to antiretrovirals (ARV) in Africa is still growing, from 100,000 in 2003 to more than one million people in last June.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its partners helped 24 African countries hardly affected with the HIV/AIDS to train health professionals in administering antiretrovirals (ARV) and 28 nations have already developed plans to intensify the supply of antiretrovirals, while 20 others set out plans to monitor and assess the ARV.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200612011009.html
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