World AIDS Day 1 December 2007, Messages from ….

1 December, 2007

This year, World AIDS Day focuses on ‘leadership’, the theme set by the World AIDS Campaign under the five-year slogan “Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise”.

For abstracts of messages log into http://www.unaids.org/en/MediaCentre/PressMaterials/FeatureStory/20071128_WAD_statements.asp

For full statements/messages log into:

UN Secretary General http://data.unaids.org/pub/PressStatement/2007/071126_sg_wad_statement_en.pdf,

UNAIDS Executive Director – Dr. Peter Piot http://data.unaids.org/pub/PressStatement/2007/071201_pp_wad_statement_en.pdf,

The World Food Program http://data.unaids.org/pub/PressStatement/2007/071201_wfp_wad_statement_en.pdf,

Director-General of UNESCO – Mr Koïchiro Matsuura http://data.unaids.org/pub/PressStatement/2007/2007_unesco_wad_statement_en.pdf,

United Nations Development Programme http://data.unaids.org/pub/PressStatement/2007/2007_undp_wad_statement_en.pdf,

International Labour Organization http://www.ilo.org/global//lang--en/WCMS_088001/index.htm,

The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS http://data.unaids.org/pub/PressStatement/2007/20071129_gcwa_wad%202007_en.pdf,

General Secretary of the International Confederation of Trade Unions – Guy Ryder,

UNAIDS Special Representative – Gaetano,

UNAIDS Special Representative – Mary Fisher,

UN Special envoy on AIDS in Africa – Elizabeth Mataka http://data.unaids.org/pub/PressStatement/2007/20071130_mataka_wad_statement_en.pdf,

UN Special envoy on HIV/AIDS in Europe – Prof Lars O. Kallings,

His Holiness Benedict XVI – Pope ,

The Archbishop of Canterbury – Dr Rowan Williams http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2007/11/28/ACNS4346,

and Caritas Internationalis http://www.caritas.org/jumpNews.asp?idLang=ENG&idChannel=3&idUser=0&idNews=5388