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UN AIDS meet thrashes out final declaration
AFP   Friday, 02 June 2006

L-R: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Jan Eliasson, President of the UN General Assembly and Gian Chen, Undersecretary General for the UN General Assembly attend a meeting at UN headquarters in New York. Negotiators at a high-level UN meeting on AIDS have agreed on the draft of a hotly-debated political declaration that will serve as a blueprint for the global struggle against the pandemic.(AFP/Stan Honda)AFP - A high-level UN meeting drew closer to agreement on a blueprint for global action on HIV/AIDS, amid heated debate on issues of gender, funding and the recognition of high-risk groups.


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