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"Mr President, ‘Time to Deliver’ – that is to say, time to keep one’s word – is the motto of the XVI International Conference on AIDS, which is due to begin in Toronto on 13 August this year, and you, too, Commissioner, expressed disappointment at the lack of political will on the part of the international actors and the Member States when it comes to making available the necessary financial resources.
The UN’s 2006 report on AIDS shows successes being achieved in all countries where enormous efforts are made at prevention, but it also shows that there are massive deficiencies in the prevention and combating of HIV/AIDS. It is not a matter of doubt that one of the most disturbing things in this report is the fact that programmes for preventing HIV are not only deficient, but also, where they are in place at all, fail to reach those groups that are most at risk. Efforts at informing young people are still inadequate, and that really is very disturbing indeed when one considers that there are more young people alive now than ever before, and that young people are more vulnerable to infection than other age groups.
It was five years ago that 189 states adopted the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, unanimously – a rare enough thing in itself – committing themselves to meeting the enormous challenge that HIV/AIDS constitutes to the development of humanity.
We know – as has already been said – what has to be done to deal with rising rates of infection, to prevent the disease spreading further and treat those who have become ill as a result of it, but there is an obvious lack of the necessary political will, and it is for that reason that we, in our resolution, are critical – as are many representatives of global civil society – of the feeble and rather vague results from the high-level meeting in New York at the end of May and the beginning of June. We call on the international community to make use of the international conference in Toronto as a means of formulating clear and concrete demands and goals."@en1
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