At the outset, allow me to express my thanks to the President of the General Assembly, the co-facilitators, the Secretary-General and the representatives of Member States here today for helping us to draft one of the most important political declarations on HIV/AIDS (A/70/L.52, annex). I know it was…
I am sure that most of those here today were expecting me to stand up here and talk about the many challenges, problems and turmoil we still face. But instead I want to talk about our collective and historic achievement.
Let us not forget that just 30 years ago this mystery disease was called “gay …