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"Mr President, I welcome the part of the proposed resolution relating to health and meeting health targets. Firstly, the reduction of the prevalence of HIV-AIDS – a disease that has reduced life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa from 62 to 47 years – is an absolutely essential target. There are reliable estimates to say that if the present state of the disease continues, every other 15-year-old girl in South Africa will die of HIV-AIDS. One way to combat this is through further development of microbicides. This particular form of preventive treatment can be singled out because, unlike conventional methods of protection, it allows women to take responsibility for its use. The problem is that investment in their development is not sufficient and such treatments are still several years away. There is a real problem in obtaining money for clinical trials.
The second point is to draw the attention of colleagues to Parliament's own work on the Sixth Framework Programme. Through this programme the European Union has given high priority to combating poverty-linked infectious diseases, such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
Finally, I should like to mention access to medicines. I hope the present
about TRIPs and possible barriers to the most modern medicines will be overcome very shortly. There is also a shortage of generic medicines, the cheaper medicines and other forms of treatment, which are just as important in countries where poverty is so rife and where water standards are so poor. It is a priority and the European Union must do all it can to stave off one of the biggest threats to the global population – disease."@en1
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