Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-01-Speech-3-142"
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"Mr President, I should like to raise two points regarding the tragic situation in certain developing countries. Firstly, our attention should not solely be focused on the important question of medicine or some future vaccine. It should also be focused on restoring or setting up proximity-based health services, in other words those located as close as possible to communities. Those services have, unfortunately, been badly affected in recent years by structural adjustment plans undertaken in those countries, especially in Africa. We must also offer all our support to local initiatives launched by civil society and to networks, on the ground, of local representatives and authorities, associations, carers and mediators from the societies in question, who have been working together to combat AIDS, with some success.
Secondly, the growing rate of infection among women is not simply down to their fragile nature or to bad luck. It is also the result of violence of all kinds – particularly sexual – against women in various regions of the world, and of the blatant discrimination to which they are subjected. Such violence has nothing to do with cultural characteristics, which is the erroneous explanation that is sometimes given. It must be referred to by name and combated as such. These two aspects show, therefore, that AIDS is as much a social problem as it is a medical problem. Let us not forget that."@en1
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