Realising the right to health: access to HIV/AIDS-related medication – Speaking notes to a panel sponsored by UNAIDS, OHCHR and WHO

At least three international developments are worth noting:

• the outcomes of the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in June 2001;
• the establishment of a Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and
• the Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health adopted at the recent 4th WTO Ministerial Conference (Doha, November 2001).