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UNAIDS Executive Director speeches
- South Africa’s Reinvigorated AIDS Response - Speech by Michel Sidibé
- BY: Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS DATE: 01 December, 2009 PLACE: Pretoria Showgrounds, Pretoria, South Africa OCCASION: Commemoration of World AIDS Day South Africa’s Reinvigorated AIDS Response
- Message from Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, on the occasion of World AIDS Day “Universal Access and Human Rights”, 1 December 2009
- On this World AIDS Day we are filled with both hope and concern. Hope because significant progress has been made towards universal access. New HIV infections have dropped. Fewer children are born with HIV. And more than 4 million people are on treatment.
- Opening address to 3rd Eastern Europe and Central Asia AIDS Conference (EECAAC 2009), by Michel Sidibé
- Where is the world HIV epidemic today? Like Winston Churchill said in 1942, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning”. Today, over 33 million people worldwide live with HIV. 7,400 people are newly infected every day. For every 2 persons who are placed on antiretroviral treatment, 5 people are newly infected. 2 million people still die of AIDS every year. We have yet to break the trajectory of the epidemic.
- Speech by Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, to the 2009 AIDS Vaccine Conference
- This is an exciting time to be among AIDS vaccine researchers—even more exciting than I anticipated when I accepted the invitation months ago.We have witnessed a significant moment in the AIDS field with the announcement of the results of the Phase III trial in Thailand of a combination HIV vaccine candidate. As you know, the results presented thus far from the Thai trial are modest. Yet that the results are not conclusive is to miss the point—the point is that they provide much needed hope to the scientific community.
- Speech by Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS to the Holy See Conference on “Access to early testing and treatment for children living with HIV or HIV/TB and to prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV”
- My friends, who could fail to care about the human consequences of HIV? The most recent data published with our Cosponsors makes for somber reading. Despite tremendous progress with treatment access, we are not there yet. For every person newly on treatment, three more people are newly infected with HIV.The Church’s uncompromising position on the need for social justice—to do what is right— and on the inherent dignity of individuals, inspires us to champion for universal access to comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care and support as a moral imperative.
- Speech by Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS to Fifty-Sixth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean
- HIV in the Eastern Mediterranean region: Facing challenges; creating opportunities. EMRO is home to well over one half million people living with HIV. The bulk of infections are concentrated among men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and people who sell sex. These are people who tend to suffer major stigma and discrimination. Not surprisingly HIV remains a highly stigmatized health condition.
- Investing in our common future: Opportunities in the global AIDS response
- I want to thank the organizers and particularly Latida Smith for the invitation to spend some time with you today. I'd like to make sure you know the UNAIDS Washington team, Pauline Muchina, Greg Smiley and John Hassell—who I want to thank for connecting us. Most importantly, I want to thank each of you all for the difference that you make to the AIDS response.
- Universal access for men who have sex with men: winds of change; signs of hope
- I thank Chairman Howard Berman and Congresswoman Barbara Lee for their leadership on this issue. I would also like to thank the “MSM Policy Working Group” of the Global AIDS Roundtable for organizing this Forum and inviting me to say a few words. I am honoured to share the platform with my good friend Ambassador Eric Goosby, who brings extensive experience working with the gay community’s early response to the epidemic and San Francisco and to all of you working on the front lines.
- Speech by Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS at Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, 14 September 2009
- AIDS as Health, Dignity and Security: A New Paradigm for the Future of the Global Response. Dear friends and colleagues, it is a privilege to deliver my first speech in Washington among friends and colleagues here at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
- Address by Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS to 59th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa
- If there is one lesson that this experience has taught me—it is the overriding need to strengthen health systems across our continent. It is my hope and aspiration, that the AIDS response will help lead the way.
- Putting People First: The AIDS response in Asia and the Pacific
- I deeply regret not being with you at this momentous event which brings more than 2,500 people together with a common goal—to end AIDS. Momentous because it takes place when we are at a cross-roads of the AIDS response.
- "Partnerships in Health – Lessons from multi-stakeholder initiatives" Speech by Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS to 2009 ECOSOC, High-level Segment, 6 July 2009
- Madame President, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen,
- Closing remarks by UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe to the 24th meeting of UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board
- Geneva, Switzerland 24 June 2009
- Crisis, opportunity and transformation: AIDS response at a crossroads
- UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé speech to 24th meeting of UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board. 23 June 2009, Geneva, Switzerland