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WHO delegates call for greater access to AIDS treatments
Kaiser Daily HIV report
2000-05-26

The WHO Assembly emded recently with a call to imrove the access of developing countries to HIV drugs.

Some 191 delegates to the World Health Assembly in Geneva concluded their week-long conference on 20/5 by adopting a resolution that calls for greater global access to AIDS drugs, Agence France-Presse reports. In their resolution, the world's health ministers also urged the World Health Organization to further support the implementation of drug price monitoring systems in member states and to develop a global health-sector strategy to tackle the pandemic. The resolution stated that the WHO will work with the Joint U.N. Programme on HIV/AIDS to discuss the possibility of making such therapies increasingly accessible to developing countries through drug development, cost reduction, and strengthening of reliable distribution systems. It also declared the need for improved health systems and better treatment and educational programs for communities. WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland concluded the conference by saying, Through the enhancing of care and strengthening its linkages to prevention, we are about to give new directions and a new energy to an expanded, revitalized response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. (Source: Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS report, 23/5/00)

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