MESSAGE TO THE HIGH-LEVEL SESSION OF THE GLOBAL FUND

Text of the Speech given by Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, at the Conclave of the Chief Ministers and Legislators of North-East Indian States during his visit to India, 19 November 2005.

Speech by UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot at the 19th meeting of UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, Lusaka, 6 December 2006

Speech at the OAFLA General Assembly. Sudan. 24 January 2006.

Speech by UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot at the Global Partners Forum on Children Affected by HIV, London, 9 February 2006

Speech by Dr Peter Piot UNAIDS Executive Director, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 7 March 2006.

Speech by Deborah Landey, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director, at the South-East Europe Sub-Regional Consultation on scaling-up towards Universal Access on 88 March 2006 in Romania.

The landscape of the fight against AIDS has been transformed in the past 15 months since I last spoke here, on the eve of World Aids Day in 2004. Issues that were gathering momentum then have come to fruition, so I now look at 2005 as the ‘least bad’ year in the history of AIDS. It was a year when hope slowly took over from pure despair in many communities; things that seemed impossible even a few years ago started to become real in 2005.

This regional consultation is the culmination of a country-driven process to concretize three increasingly famous words – towards
universal access.