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The Week in Germany: Current Affairs March 16, 2007 Merkel Calls on International Community to do More to Combat AIDS
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on the international community Monday to take more effective measures to combat the spread of AIDS. The struggle against the disease was "a task for all of mankind" and should not be treated as a problem for individual nations," she told an AIDS conference attended by EU health ministers in Bremen. Merkel said Germany would see to it that the fight against AIDS is on the summit agendas of the EU and Group of Eight leading industrial nations in June. Germany is current president of the EU and G8. Opening the two-day meeting, German Health Minister Ulla Schmidt called on the European Union to do more to rein in the disease. The goal, she said, should be to have better preventive measures and affordable treatment across Europe. "The HIV virus doesn't stop at borders," Schmidt said. "High rates of infection in one country have a knock-on effect in neighbouring states." Noting that there was no cure for AIDS, she said it was important to concentrate efforts on ways to prevent people becoming infected with the disease. Also taking part in the Bremen conference were Peter Piot, director
of the UN specialized agency UNAIDS, as well as health experts and representatives
of non-governmental organizations. (dpa) |
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