NIGERIA: UN SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN CALLS FOR A 10 BILLION U.S. DOLLAR GLOBAL FUND TO TACKLE AIDS

Record ID: 222841

  • Title: NIGERIA: UN SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN CALLS FOR A 10 BILLION U.S. DOLLAR GLOBAL FUND TO TACKLE AIDS
  • Date: 26th April 2001
  • Summary: ABUJA, NIGERIA (APRIL 26, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. LV/SLV/SV EXTERIOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE; TRADITIONAL TRIBAL DANCERS AT ENTRANCE (3 SHOTS) 0.10 2. LV/SV INTERIOR OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE WITH AFRICAN LEADERS SEATED/ GIANT SCREEN/ LOGO (3 SHOTS) 0.21 3. SLV/SV LIBYAN LEADER MUAMMAR GADDAFI AND NIGERIAN PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO ENTERING THE CONFERENCE HALL (2 SHOTS) 0.28 4. SV FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON AND FORMER GHANIAN PRESIDENT JERRY RAWLINGS GREETING DELEGATES 0.32 5. LV UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN ADDRESSING SUMMIT 0.35 6. MCU (English) ANNAN SAYING "This crisis is so grave that developing countries must face it by exploiting all options to the full, including the production and importation of generic drugs under license within the terms of international trade agreements." 0.47 7. SV CLINTON AND FORMER GHANIAN PRESIDENT JERRY RAWLINGS LISTENING TO ANNAN'S SPEECH 0.51 8. MCU (English) ANNAN SAYING "At a minimum we need to be able to spend an additional seven to ten million dollars on the struggle against HIV/AIDS in the world as a whole over an extended period of time." 1.06 9. SV/LV DELEGATES IN HALL; ANNAN LEAVING PODIUM (2 SHOTS) 1.14 10. MCU (English) CLINTON SAYING "Today it is Africa that is at the epicentre of the AIDS crisis. But in a decade unless we turn the tide here, it may very well be in India or China or Russia and the other nations of the former Soviet Union." 1.30 11. LV DELEGATES IN HALL 1.34 13. SV DELEGATES LISTENING TO CLINTON'S SPEECH 1.41 14. SV CLINTON LEAVES PODIUM AND SALUTES NIGERIAN PRESIDENT 1.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: ABUJA, NIGERIA
  • Country: Nigeria
  • Reuters ID: LVACMB0BA282TVEQ1RRB015D5HGJ
  • Story Text: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has called
    for a 10 billion U.S. dollar global fund to tackle AIDS, and
    former United States President Bill Clinton has said the U.S.

    could easily meet its contribution.



    Annan called for the world's financial support in the
    struggle against HIV/AIDS on Thursday (April 26) at the start
    of a two-day summit on Africa's AIDS epidemic.

    "At a minimum we need to be able to spend an additional
    seven to ten million dollars on the struggle against HIV/AIDS
    in the world as a whole over an extended period of time," he said.

    Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo hosted Libyan leader
    Muammar Gadaffi, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and around
    a score of African presidents and heads of government.

    Clinton was amongst the first to throw his support behind
    Annan's intention to start a global AIDS fund by saying that
    the United States could easily contribute.

    "Oh we have the money all right, the question is whether
    we have the will," he said.

    The summit ends on Friday when the leaders are due to sign
    a resolution.

    AIDS is now the number one killer in Africa and it
    threatens to slash the continent's potential for economic
    growth. It has claimed 18.8 million lives worldwide since the
    epidemic started.

    Africa is hardest hit by the disease, home of more than 70
    percent of the world's 36 million people infected by HIV, the
    virus that causes AIDS.


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