Towards a more effective leadership response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic: presentation by Dr. Kenneth Kaunda

Abstract

It is a singular honour and privilege for me to address you today on a matter that so deeply affects the whole world, but especially the people of Sub-Saharan Africa. For almost two decades now, we have been confronting the HIV/AIDS pandemic. At first we did not know what to do. It has taken us a long time to recognise the scale of the disaster we faced. It has taken us a long time to recognise the deviousness of the disease that infects silently, works secretly, and destroys ruthlessly.