Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2000. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2000. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia - Friday December 1, 2000
Speaking in Rome on World AIDS Day, Chirac said that while the EU must remain vigilant to the threat of AIDS within the 15-nation bloc, it must also do more to help those suffering outside Europe.
"Across the world and in particularly in Africa, the worst-hit region, we are, politically and morally, in a position of non-assistance to people in danger," Chirac told a news conference after meeting Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato.
"We have to make a collective effort at the level of prevention, research and therapy in these countries. This will need a real effort if we are to give them access to medicine at affordable prices."
He called for a conference, to be held under the auspices of the United Nations, to bring together representatives of developing countries, pharmaceutical companies and non-governmental organizations.
The United Nations AIDS program has estimated that some 34.3 million people worldwide are infected with HIV, the virus which causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
Around 95 percent of HIV-infected people live in developing nations, many of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
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