African Development Forum 2000 AIDS: The Greatest Leadership Challenge: Address by Mark Malloch Brown, UNDP administrator

Abstract

Address by Mark Malloch Brown, UNDP Administrator at the African Development Forum 2000 AIDS: The Greatest Leadership Challenge. Mr. Brown, on his remarks highlighted that, AIDS is reversing a generation of progress in human development and poverty reduction efforts. On current trends the disease risks completely derailing many of the key global development targets for 2015 - from halving world poverty to ensuring universal primary education -- that world leaders endorsed at the historic Millennium Summit. Several African governments, including Uganda, Malawi, Ethiopia, Botswana and Tanzania, have created a coordinating body reporting directly to the prime minister or presidents office to drive this process. In addition, the early results have been very encouraging, helping kick-start the process of integrating AIDS issues into overall development plans. UNDP's real comparative advantage in grappling with HIV/AIDS lies in helping build capacity to respond to the crisis while supporting the more direct work of our partners in UNAIDS.