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UNDP Support to the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals

There is an imperative today to foster sustainable development. A vision for what this encapsulates is laid out in the new sustainable development agenda that aims to end poverty, promote prosperity and people’s well-being while protecting the environment by 2030. As the UN’s Development arm, UNDP has a key role to play in supporting countries to make this vision a reality—putting societies on a sustainable development pathway, managing risk and enhancing resilience, and advancing prosperity and wellbeing.

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Uganda president warns of economic impact of anti-gay bill

Kampala (AFP) – Uganda’s president on Friday signalled he is having second thoughts over tough anti-homosexuality legislation, arguing the east African nation needed to consider the impact on trade and economic growth. In an editorial carried by a leading national daily, veteran President Yoweri Museveni said he only signed off on a controversial anti-gay law earlier this year because he wanted to protect children and stop people being “recruited” into homosexuality.

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Focusing on prices of HIV medicines in middle-income countries | Tenu Avafia...

A key determinant of middle-income countries meeting their health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be their ability to sustain and expand access to treatment for HIV and its co-infections, like TB and Hepatitis C.

By 2020, the majority of people living with HIV will be living in middle-income countries, such as South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Ecuador and Thailand. Yet at the same time as new, more effective medicines to treat HIV emerge, many of these countries, based on their average income levels, are increasingly being left out of special arrangements offered by pharmaceutical companies to low-income countries, such as price discounts or voluntary licenses to use their patents.

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Speech by the Hon Michael Kirby at the Workshop on Greek Justice, Legislation...

One of the most famous novelists in the English language was Charles Dickens.  One of his greatest novels is a Tale of Two Cities.  It tells the story of a huge international crisis that followed the French Revolution of 1789.  It does so from the viewpoint of concurrent happenings in Paris and London.   As is well known, the book begins with the famous words: “It was the best of times.  It was the worst of times.” So it is today with HIV.  These are bad times, especially in developing and poorer countries; but also in middle income countries

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