UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa

 Elizabeth Mataka, United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa:

“We are no longer fatalistic about HIV and AIDS. There is hope.”

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Publications

Satellite Session on HIV in Prisons Partnership Networks AIDS 2010 Conference - Elizabeth Mataka

Fri - 05/12/08

Speech Date:

19 July 2010

Distinguished ladies and gentlemen,

I would like to extend my gratitude to the Africa HIV in Prisons Partnership Network and UNDOC for their invitation to be a panellist at this satellite session tonight.

Key Points: CABA Symposium, Vienna 2010 - Elizabeth Mataka (Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa)

Fri - 05/12/08

Speech Date: 02 September 2010

Background:

  • Africa’s population of over 980 million is young: with children and young people below the age of 15 constituting about 40 percent of the total population .  
  • Concerned that 90% of the world’s pediatric HIV is in sub-Saharan Africa

Limited progress has been made toward the UNGASS DoC targets: