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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, my sincere thanks go to all those involved in drafting this resolution. Our common objective is to reduce the number of HIV infections, for statistics do not support the notion that this is what is happening.
In the EU countries, tens of thousands of new cases are confirmed every year, and if we include our neighbouring countries, the number of new cases a year is in excess of 100 000. However, this is a disease that is completely preventable, and we know how to do this. The main reason why everything that can be done to prevent new HIV infections is not being done is hypocrisy.
A few years ago, I was in South Africa and I happened to see a television advertisement in which Nelson Mandela said that we speak to our children about sex because we love them. Mandela was obviously referring to the fact that young people and people in general could protect themselves from HIV. They need to know about sex and they need to know, for example, that a condom will protect them.
The experience of my own country, Finland, is that sex education in schools and the open debate generally on sex, together with comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services, are an effective way to reduce the number of problems relating to sexual behaviour, from abortions to sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. That is why sexual and reproductive health services are so vitally important.
Many Members have already referred to the position of women. Statistics show that 45% of those newly infected are young women under the age of 25. This clearly shows that the issue also concerns gender roles and whether women have the knowledge and courage to insist on the use of a condom in their sexual relations. Testing obviously plays a crucial part in the prevention of new infections, because people who are not aware that they are infected are three times more likely to spread the disease. Similarly, treatment is crucially important, for example, in preventing the infection from being passed on from breastfeeding or expectant mothers to their children, and the prevention of discrimination is important from the perspective of treatment, as some Members have already mentioned. I hope that we can add to our general objectives and set concrete goals, as the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has done."@en1
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