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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Poverty reduction (combating the major transmissible diseases)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011004.2.4-021"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-04-Speech-4-0222
lpv:speaker	lp:Anders Wijkman2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-10-09)3 unknown; Kristdemokraterna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Commission’s initiative from last year to play a leading role in efforts to halt the spread of HIV, malaria and TB came not a day too soon – on the contrary. The international community should long before have taken the HIV epidemic more seriously and generally gone to much more effort, through research and preventive measures, to reduce the spread of malaria in particular. Lack of funds, especially in the area of research, has long been acute. Of course, we welcome initiatives of the type which Bill Gates carried out, but this type of preventive work cannot, and must not, depend on the efforts of single individuals. It must primarily be a task for public bodies. The resolution under discussion today constitutes Parliament’s rather late response to the Commission’s initiative of last year. The resolution should be seen in the context of the work we are currently carrying out with regard to the budget for next year, in which we propose, at least on a preliminary basis, considerable increases compared with the proposals of the Commission and the Council. We believe there is a need for more capacity within the Commission in order for it to be able to play a leading role in this area. There is also a need for more money for operational initiatives. The situation with regard to the diseases we are discussing here today is critical. More resources are needed, but there is also a need for new and innovative forms of partnership – especially between the public and private sectors. We must ensure that incentives are created for increased research. Partnership between the public and private sectors is vital, as too of course is partnership with non-governmental organisations. I hope the Commission, and especially Mr Nielson, will see this resolution, as well as our efforts in other contexts to increase budget resources, as a strong incentive and support for the Commission with a view to the latter’s playing the leading role in the fight against HIV, malaria and TB, a fight which I believe we all feel is so important."@en1

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