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UNAIDS Executive Director official visit to Rwanda continues

UNAIDS - 1 September 2009

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe has met with President of Rwanda, H.E. Paul Kagame, and the First Lady of Rwanda, H.E. Jeanette Kagame, as well as representatives of civil society organizations.

Yesterday he addressed the 59th session of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa in Kigali. Mr Sidibe stressed the urgent need stop new HIV infections and called for a sea-change approach to prevent sexual transmission of HIV. "Prevention must become our watchword, the banner we raise in this critical stage of the response," said Mr Sidibe.

Mr Sidibe also congratulated Dr Luis Sambo on his re-election as the WHO Regional Director for Africa and reiterated the full support of UNAIDS to him and WHO. The two organizations collaborate closely on several fronts including the Harmonization for Health in Africa initiative. Mr Sidibe spoke about the importance of the goal of primary health care: "These and other such efforts will enable us to do more with less--and do it more sustainably," he said.

Resources:

Related information:

Rwanda - http://www.unaids.org/en/CountryResponses/Countries/rwanda.asp

Cosponsors:

World Health Organization (WHO) - http://www.who.int/

Speeches:

Address by Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS to 59th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa - http://data.unaids.org/pub/SpeechEXD/2009/20090901_sp_ms_afro_en. pdf

Multimedia:

View photo gallery - http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/Resources/PhotoGal/30082 009_MS_Rwanda_Visit.asp

Feature stories:

UNAIDS Executive Director's first official visit to Rwanda (28 August 2009) - http://www.aegis.org/news/unaids/2009/UN090825.html

Made in Africa (02 July 2009) - http://www.aegis.org/news/unaids/2009/UN090703.html

Publications:

Joint action for results: UNAIDS outcome framework, 2009 û 2011 (pdf, 396 Kb.) - http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2009/jc1713_joint_action_en.pdf
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