I would like to begin by associating the United Kingdom with the statement we have just heard delivered by Mrs. Haubner on behalf of the European Union.
In three days’ time, it will be exactly 25 years since AIDS was first discovered. Twenty-five years in which millions have wept as they watched th…
Last year, AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria claimed the lives of 6 million people around the world. Today, 100 million children are not where they should be, in school. Tonight, as every night, millions of men, women and children will go to bed hungry. Three reasons why what we do here today matters. …
One hundred fifty years ago, a scientist named John Snow became convinced that a contaminated well was at the centre of the cholera outbreak in London. He persuaded the authorities to remove the handle from the pump on the well. The epidemic subsided, and people’s lives were saved.
We meet here thi…
At the General Assembly’s special session on HIV/AIDS two years
ago, the United Kingdom’s representative, Clare Short, said this:
“We have, I am afraid, no reason to congratulate ourselves on the convening of this session. ... We have been aware of the infection for 20 years and that it was spread…
