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STORY: UN WORLD AIDS DAY
TRT: 2:24
SOURCE: UNTV / PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION (PAHO)
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 NOVEMBER 2006, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
UNTV - 30 NOVEMBER 2006, NEW YORK CITY
1. Zoom out, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan approaching the podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"The challenge now is to deliver on all the promises that Governments have made. Leaders must hold themselves accountable and be held accountable by all of us. That is why accountability is the theme of this World AIDS Day. Accountability requires every President and Prime Minister, every parliamentarian and politician, to decide and declare that "AIDS stops with me".
3. Cutaway, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"But accountability applies not only to those who hold positions of power. It also applies to all of us as well."
5. Zoom out, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan walking towards audience
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director:
"Not only are over 4 million people in the developing world who don't have access to anti-retroviral therapy. There are also people in high income countries in the United States, in Europe who don't have access to life saving treatment."
8. Wide shot, St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
FILE: PAHO - 1996, MEXICO
9. Med shot, student talking to peers about HIV - Mexico
10. Zoom out, group of young people playing a "informative game" about HIV
FILE: PAHO - 2001, WASHINGTON D.C.
11. Med shot, man prepares anti-retroviral medication
12. Close up, man places medication on his hand and drinks it
FILE: PAHO - 1995, HONDURAS
13. Med shot, AIDS female patient
FILE: PAHO - 1995, HAITI
14. Med shot, AIDS young woman patient
FILE: PAHO - 1995, HONDURAS
15. Med shot, AIDS male patient
FILE: PAHO - 1999, NICARAGUA
16. Wide shot, health workers passing information about HIV to young laborers
FILE: PAHO - 1995, HAITI
17. Med shot, people waiting for HIV test
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a World's AIDS Day message, called the struggle against the pandemic "the greatest challenge of our generation," and urged all international leaders to make sure they deliver on all the promises that their governments have made to combat this disease.
Annan, who was delivering his message at an inter-faith event at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York yesterday, added that it was important for world leaders to strengthen protections for all vulnerable groups, whether people living with HIV, young people, sex workers, injecting drug users or men who have sex with men.
The theme for this year's observation of World AIDS Day is accountability, and the idea that "AIDS stops with me."
Annan said that accountability applies not only to world leaders, but to "all of us," from business leaders who can campaign for HIV prevention in the workplace to health workers and faith-based groups who can listen and provide care to sufferers without passing judgement.
On a more positive note, he said that the international community has finally begun to take the fight seriously, devoting greater financial resources and giving more and more people access to antiretroviral treatment.
According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 39.5 million people around the world currently live with HIV and another 4.3 million are estimated to be infected by the end of this year, with nearly two out of every three new infections occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. Significant increases in rates of infection have also been reported in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, who spoke after Annan, said that one of the biggest challenges is making sure that HIV/ AIDS patients all around world have access to anti-retroviral therapy. He added that currently over 4 million people in developing countries as well as many in developed countries like the United States and in Europe have no or limited access.
Over the last 25 years since the first case was reported, at least 25 million have now died from AIDS-related diseases. This year alone almost 3 million people will die. The pandemic is the leading cause of death among both men and women aged between 15 and 59.
World AIDS Day was introduced by the World Health Organisation on 1 December 1988.
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