Traduction de «Journée mondiale contre le sida » (Français → Anglais) :

World AIDS Day initiatives included visits to schools by Commissioner Kyprianou and Health Ministers in the respective Member States, as well as an exhibition on Commission activities to tackle HIV/AIDS.

The Commission has established partnerships with the Alliance for Microbicide Development and Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise and has initiated collaboration with the Global Business Coalition, the pharmaceutical industry and other supportive businesses in order to define areas where they could work together to combat HIV/AIDS.

(5) The failure to reduce the burden of these diseases and the evidence of their increasing impact have brought them to the centre of the development debate - as evidenced by the Declaration of Commitment of the Special Session of the UN General Assembly of June 2001, which recognises that HIV/AIDS has evolved to become a developmental emergency, and by the WHO World Health Assembly's declaration of tuberculosis and malaria as global emergencies - and have led to calls for urgent action and a series of national, regional and international initiatives, all meant to achieve the Millennium Development Goals which include clear targets to fi ...[+++]ght HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and to which the European Community and its Member States committed themselves.

(4) The joint Declaration of 31 May 2001 by the Council and the Commission and the European Parliament Resolution of 4 October 2001 on communicable diseases and poverty welcomed the proposal of the UN Secretary General to establish a Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria (hereinafter called "Global Fund"), and stressed that contributions to the Global Fund should be additional to existing resources.

The lack of progress in reducing the burden of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis through support to strengthen health systems has brought these diseases to the centre of the development debate and has led, in recent years, to the launch of a series of major initiatives. These include: the International Partnership against AIDS in Africa (IPAA), the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), Roll Back Malaria, the Malaria Medicines Initiative (MMV) and the Stop TB Initiative.

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THE MINISTERS FOR HEALTH OF THE MEMBER STATES, MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL, Having regard to the Treaties establishing the European Communities, Having regard to their common approach to combating AIDS, worked out in 1986 and subsequently expanded (1), Remain concerned by the increase in the AIDS epidemic in the Member States of the Community and by its social, economic, legal and ethical consequences; Recall their conclusions of 16 May 1989 (2) affirming that contamination by drug injection ...[+++] is a major concern of the health authorities; Stress the very considerable efforts made by all Member States in the fields of research, treatment and prevention as well as the major endeavour to coordinate research at Community level; Note that, in spite of encouraging progress achieved in research, effective vaccines and treatment will not be widely available for several years; Reiterate the importance of international cooperation, in particular with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Council of Europe; Consider it advisable to reaffirm and specify, for the attention of all European citizens, the principles which should guide them in preventing and combating AIDS; Draw attention also to their conclusions of 15 May 1987 (3) in which they decided to draw up an action and coordination plan for adoption by the Member States and at Community level; Therefore agree to step up the coordination of national and Community projects and promote activities of common interest.