WORLD AIDS DAY 2007 CAMPAIGN

That this House notes that on World AIDS Day, 1st December 2007, some 33 million people remain directly affected by HIV/AIDS; calls for the UK Government and the international community to continue efforts to achieve the goal of universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010; believes these efforts should be guided as far as possible by detailed annual targets at country level so as to hold governments in both rich and poor countries to account for delivering on their promises; reaffirms the central importance of prevention to halting the spread of the virus and calls for prevention to be central to international efforts to tackle HIV/AIDS; believes that efforts to tackle HIV/AIDS should as far as possible act to strengthen basic healthcare systems so as to aid the fight against other killer diseases such as malaria, and common co-infections such as tuberculosis; celebrates the role of many private businesses operating in poor countries in helping to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS; and calls for governments, businesses and voluntary organisations to work together in tackling the epidemic.