11 Jun 2012

GA / HIV/AIDS

Addressing the GA today one year after they passed a landmark resolution on the commitment to funding the fight against HIV/AIDS, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that if the number of new HIV infections is to be cut by one million by 2015 people at risk need to be reached. UNTV /FILE

Posted at: June 11, 2012 12:46 pm

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STORY: GA / HIV/AIDS
TRT: 2.17
SOURCE: UNTV / UNAIDS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 11 JUNE 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1.	Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

11 JUNE 2012, NEW YORK CITY

2. Zoom in, General Assembly
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
"Prevention is critical. We have to cut the number of new HIV infections by 1 million by 2015. We can only reach that goal if we reach out to people at risk: sex workers … men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, women and youth. Five million young people live with HIV. Each day, 3,000 more are infected. Yet it is within our power to stop this spread. Young people are receptive to changing their behaviours. With the right information, they will do what is right for their health."
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
"Discrimination hampers our efforts to respond to the AIDS epidemic by making it difficult for people to seek prevention and treatment services. I am also urging all countries to end restrictions and penalties for people living with HIV. And I am doing everything possible to make the United Nations a model workforce where there is absolutely no stigma at all."
7. Pan left, General Assembly

FILE - UNAIDS - 9 APRIL 2011, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

8. Med shot, people coming to get medicine at pharmacy in clinic
9. Close up, medicine being handed over
10. Close up, ARV pills pouring out onto black cloth

FILE - UNAIDS - 28 APRIL 2011, UGENYA DISTRICT, NAIROBI, KENYA

11. Various shots, man taking ARV

FILE - UNAIDS - 26 APRIL 2011, NAIROBI, KENYA

12. Various shots, condom counselling

FILE - UNAIDS - 2010, THAILAND

13. Med shot, doctor talking to patient
14. Close up, pills
15. Wide shot, consultation

STORYLINE:

Despite the tremendous progress that has been achieved in the response to HIV/AIDS, it is urgent that efforts be redoubled to end this global epidemic, top United Nations officials stressed today (11 June), highlighting in particular the need to expand services and scale up resources.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, speaking to an Assembly meeting held to review progress following last year's high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS, said that "prevention is critical" in view of the goal of  cutting the number of new HIV infections by 1 million by 2015.

He said that this goal will only be attained "if we reach out to people at risk", including sex workers, men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, as well as women and youth.

The Secretary-General stressed that "it is within our power to stop this spread" and noted that "young people are receptive to changing their behaviours" and "with the right information, they will do what is right for their health."

According to his new report on HIV / AIDS, substantial access gaps persist for key services, with especially difficult obstacles experienced by populations at higher risk. Punitive laws, gender inequality, violence against women and other human rights violations continue to undermine national responses.

Ban pointed out that "discrimination hampers our efforts to respond to the AIDS epidemic by making it difficult for people to seek prevention and treatment services."

He urged all countries "to end restrictions and penalties for people living with HIV."

The report expresses particular  concern for the first-ever decline in HIV funding in 2010, potentially jeopardizing the capacity of the international community to close access gaps and sustain progress in the coming years.

At last year's high-level meeting, Member States adopted a political declaration committing themselves to ambitious new targets to combat HIV/ AIDS, with the aim of ridding the world of a disease that has claimed more than 30 million lives since the virus was first identified three decades ago.

Member States pledged to deliver antiretroviral therapy to 15 million people living with HIV; work towards eliminating new infections in children and substantially reducing maternal AIDS-related deaths; reduce by 50 per cent new infections from sexual transmission and among people who inject drugs; substantially increase HIV funding, with the goal of mobilizing $22 billion to $24 billion annually; meet the needs of women and girls; and eliminate stigma and discrimination.