Yin Li, vice minister at the 65th UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS At 14:41 on June 10, 2011 Source: Ministry of Health website June 8, 2011 -10 days, the 65th UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS held at UN headquarters in New York. The meeting aims to achieve a comprehensive review of national AIDS 2001 UN General Assembly special session "on HIV / AIDS Declaration of Commitment" and 2006 "on HIV / AIDS and the Political Declaration" by the progress made AIDS prevention for the future development blueprint for the world free of new HIV infections, non-discriminatory and non-AIDS deaths goals. Deputy Health Minister Yin Li led the Chinese delegation attended the meeting. The general debate in plenary session, Vice Minister Yin Li delivered a speech entitled "positive action, strengthen cooperation and strive to achieve the control objectives of the new" speech. He said that in order to halt and reverse the spread of the AIDS epidemic, the Chinese Government to actively fulfill its commitments, the establishment of the government leadership, department coordination, prevention and treatment of the whole society to participate in the working mechanism, introduced a series of AIDS prevention and control regulations and policy measures, and AIDS Goals and national health reform and development of the overall goals, actively committed to achieving universal access to HIV services and to eliminate social discrimination, protection of HIV infected people and patients and their families enjoy the prevention, treatment, care services, rights and interests. After several years of efforts, China's AIDS epidemic has slowed the momentum of rapid increase, the mortality decreased significantly, HIV infected persons and AIDS patients quality of life improved significantly.
Yin Li pointed out that the United Nations as the "no new HIV infections, non-discriminatory, non-AIDS death," the goal portrays a grand blueprint. Every nation, every organization and individual should take positive action to further strengthen unity and cooperation, clear responsibilities and establish a common control mechanism. Developed and developing countries shared responsibility. Developed countries to developing countries to further selfless, with no conditions attached financial and technical support. Developing countries should control the AIDS epidemic into the country's important position and economic development, and actively explore the control model consistent with their national conditions, to mobilize more resources into the field of AIDS prevention, promote the implementation of prevention, treatment and care measures. Global multinational drug manufacturers have through technology transfer, contract manufacturing, reducing monopoly profits, etc., a significant reduction in the treatment drugs, the price of testing equipment and reagents to promote universal access to treatment services.
Yinli Jiang stressed that China is the world's AIDS prevention an important part of AIDS prevention. The Chinese government will continue to further strengthen the government leadership, department coordination, the working mechanism of the whole society to participate; increased efforts to implement the measures and strive for "five universal access, the two equal enjoyment," that is universally accessible public education , testing and counseling services, universal access, AIDS, PMTCT services are generally accessible, comprehensive intervention of universal access, universal access to antiretroviral therapy; efforts to eliminate social discrimination, so that infected persons and patients equal access to medical care, employment and other benefits , so that children orphaned by AIDS grants equal access to state; the same time, with the international community should further strengthen exchanges and cooperation to jointly cope with new challenges.
In addition, Yin Li attended the UNAIDS-sponsored by the "treatment for the prevention of" special ministerial round table and made a statement. He briefly introduced China's "prevention first, combining prevention with control" of the AIDS prevention policy and the "Four Frees and One Care" policy implementation progress. Emphasis on global prevention and treatment services to achieve universal access, long way to go. Strategic perspective of developing countries should actively explore in AIDS prevention model for South-South cooperation, mutual support and learn from each other. Especially in the anti-viral treatment, developing countries should unite to discuss the implementation of new treatment strategies to enhance treatment of drug development, production and other technical cooperation, urges the means of technology transfer through multinational corporations reduce the treatment of drug prices and promote universal access to prevention services and comprehensive implementation. Meanwhile, the state should fulfill promises of development assistance for AIDS in developing countries to provide financial and technical support. China will continue to strengthen South-South cooperation, share their experiences and provide assistance within its capacity.
In addition to the plenary, the meeting scheduled Game 5 focus group discussions, and more than 40 side events. From 192 countries and regions and relevant international organizations, non-governmental organizations, representatives of more than 3,000 attended the high-level meetings, including 30 heads of state, government leaders and Vice President. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel? Sidibe, and infected women from Ukraine representatives and representatives of research institutions to speak at the opening ceremony. World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan, attended the AIDS prevention and control of innovation and new technology symposium.
The meeting held that the 30th anniversary of the discovery of HIV, the UN General Assembly Special Session on AIDS held in the occasion of 10 years, a landmark of this meeting. Through AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support universal access, AIDS-free world is moving towards new infections, AIDS-related non-discriminatory and non-target steady progress of death, but these results are fragile. Need to accelerate the progress of global solidarity and cooperation partners. On innovative financing, technology transfer and AIDS and other health services integration, countries are facing new opportunities and challenges. Consultation by the parties to discuss, the meeting will adopt a new Declaration on AIDS prevention and control, to guide future 5-year global AIDS prevention and control.
In this high-level meeting the day before the UN Security Council passed a resolution to recognize that HIV is a social development, progress and stability are facing one of the most serious challenges, calls upon the international community to take effective and concerted action, conflict and post-conflict HIV-infected or affected by people, especially women, to provide sustained assistance; to the United Nations peacekeeping operations take comprehensive measures to improve the peacekeepers on AIDS awareness, prevention and care to do work.
During the meeting, Yin Li met with UN Deputy Secretary-General Sha, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Executive Director Michel? Kacha Qi gold and my delegation to the United Nations, Ambassador Li Baodong.
International Cooperation Department Ministry of Health, Disease Control Bureau, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, civil society representatives and my Permanent Mission of the relevant personnel as a Chinese delegation attended the meeting.
