Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-30-Speech-4-043"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Aid for poverty diseases2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030130.2.4-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-30-Speech-4-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Nirj Deva2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to begin by congratulating my colleague Anders Wijkman for an excellent report which took him seven months to complete, but he battled his way through it and I am very proud to be associated with him in this work in the Development Committee. We have called this report 'Diseases on poor countries' and we have focused on Africa, where 28 million people are HIV positive, and on the potential increase in these dreadful diseases in India and China, as well as TB and hepatitis B. But these are no longer diseases of poor countries because of our global inter-dependence and the fact that, for example in the United Kingdom alone, 115 000 settlers are now coming and living in our country and we are allowing 100 000 asylum seekers to come into our country. HIV rates have increased by 100% in the United Kingdom in the last year to 5 000 cases. TB has increased by 200% to 7 300 reported cases. The London Borough of Brent now has a higher rate of TB than China and twice that of Brazil. 26 300 hepatitis B infections were reported in the last four years in London alone. One person in 50 in east London has hepatitis B – the same level as in Nepal. So why the reference to poor countries? No: this is a global epidemic where we are inter-dependent, and what we do to help the people in the developing countries to eradicate and stop these diseases is also going to have an enormous impact on how we and our children are going to live in Europe. I think we need to establish the connection between development and what happens in our own countries, and I now want to ask the Labour Government to act on this before it is too late."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Member States of ASEAN, south-east Asia and the Republic of Korea (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Deva (PPE-DE )."1

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