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International community aims to rid the world of AIDS by 2030

International community aims to rid the world of AIDS by 2030

EDA, Bern, 8 June 2016 - "By 2030 HIV/AIDS should no longer be a threat to public health. This is the message of the Swiss delegation to the 2016 High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, which takes place on 8-10 June at the UN headquarters in New York.

It thereby supports the adopted political declaration on HIV/AIDS, which requires measures against the epidemic to be intensified in the coming five years. The negotiations for the High-Level Meeting were led by Switzerland and Zambia, a country especially hard hit by HIV/AIDS, on behalf of the president of the UN General Assembly.

(...) The seven-member Swiss delegation representing Switzerland's positions in New York is participating in efforts to ensure that measures against HIV/AIDS are intensified. The delegation is headed by Tania Dussey-Cavassini, assistant director of the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), and is composed of representatives of the FOPH, the Directorate of Political Affairs (PD) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) within the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), as well as of civil society (Medicus Mundi)." (Photo: Norway UN)

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