| Date | 22 September 2003 |
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| Started | 18:10 |
| Ended | 21:05 |
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Agenda item 47 (continued)
Follow-up to the outcome of the twenty-sixth special session: implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
High-level plenary meetings devoted to the follow-up to the outcome of the twenty-sixth special session and the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
Report of the Secretary-General (A/58/184)
The President
I call on Her Excellency Mrs. Leila Rachid de Cowles, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Paraguay.
Mrs. Rachid (Paraguay)
Two years ago, when we met in this great Hall, we did so with great concern, yet, at the same time, with the firm resolve to study the situation together and pool our efforts to ensure that the terrible epidemic of HIV/AIDS would not continue to further undermine the foundations of our households, societies and nations. On that occasion, we adopted an important Declaration aimed at establishing a universal strategy to combat that disease. For that reason, we are profoundly gratified at the holding of this high-level plenary meeting, because this year marks the first stage of the strategy, whose achievements we are analysing.
The report presented by the Secretary-General (A/58/184) on the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS demonstrates that this document has become an invaluable instrument of reference for States and institutions in their efforts to fight this epidemic. However, it is also clear that we are far from achieving its effective implementation and fulfilment. The data and figures submitted continue to be alarming.
The epidemic in Paraguay began in 1986 and, since then, the country has been working out a response to it. Since 1995, political resolve has taken the form of the allocation of a special budget to deal with the needs of a national programme to combat the epidemic. It should be noted that, in the context of that policy, as far as the Government of Paraguay is concerned, unreserved respect for the rights of persons living with HIV/AIDS and the most vulnerable populations is a State obligation. Aware of that responsibility and despite our limitations, my Government has not spared any effort in carrying out its commitments. Planning made it possible to establish the policies of a national programme, together with departmental governments and all social actors, including people living with HIV/AIDS, thus giving a more effective and timely response to the growth of the epidemic.
Paraguay has developed measures aimed at vulnerable groups, giving priority to information and education prevention campaigns, which are aimed at changing behaviour patterns and directing young people and adults to take decisions that improve their quality of life, as well as to the development of mother-to-child prevention programmes.
Regarding care, support and treatment, this is the point where political will breaks down, given the burden of an adverse economic situation and overall tension, whose components represent a cost that greatly exceeds the financing abilities of a country with serious poverty problems.
Discrimination and stigmatization related to the disease grow in the shadow of ignorance, intolerance and fear. Paraguay, through the Government and civil organizations, has taken on the promotion of human rights of people living with AIDS or who are in some way affected by it, for which it is starting a legislative reform process that goes beyond respect for human dignity, the full exercise of basic human rights, right to information, education and liberal sexual orientation. It is also increasingly difficult to speak of vulnerable groups when the barriers that lead to the propagation of the epidemic and its effects are being addressed by greater access to education and overall health care. Boy and girl orphans and children in vulnerable situations, and the mitigation of social and economic effects, are still matters of initial treatment by governmental and non-governmental institutions.
We wish to highlight the leadership of the United Nations in this matter and underscore the work done by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
We often struggle to fight, with many resources, enemies who attack innocent people violently. I am referring to terrorism. However, it would seem that we still need to become fully aware of the fact that the enemies are not only those who sow terror in our nations; they are also those who slowly yet painfully undermine and destroy so many innocent lives, as is the case of women, boys and girls, who actually represent half of the cases of HIV infection in the world. That will be perhaps one of the most difficult issues that we must tackle, but it is, undoubtedly, the main one. It is the obligation of all of us to address it successfully. We must not fail in that undertaking. The history of humankind would never forgive us.
The President
I give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Roy Chaderton-Matos, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela.
Mr. Chaderton-Matos (Venezuela)
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