Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-05-Speech-3-376"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:AIDS Time to deliver (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060705.23.3-376"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-07-05-Speech-3-3772
lpv:speaker	lp:John Bowis2
lpv:spoken text	". Mr President, the Commissioner is right to highlight the progress that is being made, but I think he will be the first to acknowledge that the challenge of AIDS is widening. We all know those figures that we quote in every debate, the 40 million people living with AIDS, the 20 million who have died from AIDS, the 12 million AIDS orphans, the 2.5 million children living with AIDS, but there are new aspects. There is the fact that around half of the people who now have AIDS and are dying of the disease are women. There is the problem of where AIDS is on the increase. India is now the country with the most cases of AIDS. It has overtaken South Africa, it has two thirds of the cases in Asia, and yet in India only 7% of the people who need the anti-retrovirals are receiving them. We see children missing out on the HIV drugs they should be receiving. Only one in twenty HIV-positive children are receiving the treatment they need, and the Global Movement for Children recently reported that four million children are desperately in need of Cotrimoxazole, the antibiotic costing just three cents per child per day that could prevent life-threatening infections in children with HIV and those born to HIV-positive mothers. Closer to home, on our doorstep, we see the figures in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where the numbers infected have increased almost 20-fold in less than a decade, and between 2003 and 2005 the number killed by AIDS has almost doubled. So, Commissioner, we join you in your resolution to do more. We want to see much more done in terms of prevention. We have seen in Senegal and Uganda how investment in prevention can really work and make a difference. We need to see that rolled out, particularly in Africa and in Asia. Lastly, we need to see investment in research. With research into new drugs and vaccines and the delivery of drugs, the children I have referred to who are now living with and dying of AIDS can have hope for the future."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DEVE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2004-10-13--2007-03-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"John Bowis,"1 "on behalf of the PPE-DE Group"1

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