Des nouvelles de l’UNGASS

Please see below links to stories in the media about UNGASS 2006.

UNAIDS Report Identifies 9.8 Million as Universal Access Treatment
Target for 2010: AIDS Activist Group Calls for Clear Plan of Action to Achieve 80%
Coverage Goal

Drug Users Must Be Included in Scaling Up the Global Response to HIV/AIDS: Harm Reduction Advocate Challenges UN Delegates on Commitments to Syringe Exchange, Methadone

African civil society delegations are in an increasingly desperate struggle to salvage the important gains made in the last few months of the UNGASS review process. While the African civil society coalition on UNGASS managed to ensure that the African statement to the review meeting was strong, this African Position is now under threat. At the UN high level meeting in New York this week the African civil society coalition is increasingly exasperated at the way the negotiations are going. This note below is being circulated in the UN high level meeting to help the African delegations fight more effectively within the UN meeting.

In the Opening Plenary Statement by Civil Society at the UN High Level
meeting we heard from a young woman brought to New York by the Treatment
Action Campaign. Her speech explains why this meeting matters

Please see below

Trade Unions ask Governments at the UN General Assembly to Say ‘YES’ to a G8 Working Group on HIV/AIDS
New York, 29 May, 2006

Zivilgesellschaft warnt vor Scheitern der aktuellen UN Konferenz zu HIV/AIDS
Neue Abschlusserklaerung droht bestehende Verabredungen aufzuweichen

Please find below a statement from a coaltion of Grassroots Home-Based Caregivers in Africa on the occasion of the UN General Assembly Special Session on AIDS, 2006.

"Praying that Love will Keep the Promise"