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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-12-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:World Aids Day2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041201.14.3-133"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-12-01-Speech-3-1342
lpv:speaker	lp:John Bowis2
lpv:spoken text	". Mr President, today Ukraine has dominated our discussions, and in Ukraine people are dying, not as a result of the political crisis, but because of the AIDS crisis. Ten years ago, 183 people were registered as having HIV/AIDS there, today, in 2004, it is 68 000. That is the scale of this problem within our own continent. Across the world nearly 40 million people have HIV and, as the Commissioner said, we must take action to prevent and solve these problems. The focus this year has been very much on women and children. As the Commissioner said, women account for some 57% of those who are HIV positive in sub-Saharan Africa, and over 60% of those with HIV aged between 15 and 24. Finding vaccines appropriate to them before the onset of sexual activity is fundamental. The figures are appalling for orphans too. There are 15 million orphans in the world, 12.3 million of them are in sub-Saharan Africa. There are 1.8 million already in Nigeria, and there will be 1.5 million in South Africa by 2010. And so it goes on. We have to take action along the lines of our resolution; we have to take action on HIV/AIDS and on conditions, disorders and diseases such as tuberculosis, hepatitis C, mental illness and depression. We have to find more palliative care for those dying of AIDS, in particular in the developing countries. We have to protect our health workers from the dangers of AIDS from needlestick injuries – witness the exhibition in this Parliament today. I welcome the Commissioner’s statement. I also welcome the work done in this field by Pavel Telicka during his time as a Commissioner. We urge Commissioner Kyprianou and his colleague Commissioner Michel to put shoulders to the wheel and to close the door on the epidemic faced by Europe and the rest of the world."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DEVE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2004-10-13--2007-03-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Bowis (PPE-DE ),"1 "on behalf of the group"1

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