AEGiS-BBC: Professor awarded Unesco 'first': An Aberystwyth University professor has been honoured by the United Nations' cultural body for research into the social problems of HIV and Aids.

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Professor awarded Unesco 'first': An Aberystwyth University professor has been honoured by the United Nations' cultural body for research into the social problems of HIV and Aids.

BBC News - November 29, 2007

Colin McInnes was awarded a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) chair.

He is thought to be the first professor in Wales to receive the honour from Unesco and only the eighth in the UK.

They are awarded annually to help further research in one of the organisation's "fields of competence".

Prof McInnes, head of the international politics department at Aberystwyth University, said it was an honour to receive the chair in HIV/Aids, education and security.

"It is a great honour to be awarded the first Unesco chair in Wales.

"The chair is an endorsement of the pioneering work undertaken in the department of international politics at Aberystwyth University on the international politics of disease, especially HIV/Aids.

"It is also a challenge to better understand the social consequences of HIV/Aids and how we should respond."

Unesco's Wales committee invited universities to suggest potential chairs and then submitted a proposal to its headquarters in Paris.

Prof Michael Scott, chair of the Unesco Wales Committee, said: "The award of the Unesco chair in HIV/Aids, education and security is a huge boost to Wales's international profile and recognition of the leading role that Prof McInnes is playing in positioning HIV/Aids, as an issue that should be addressed as part of the global security agenda."

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