Press room

2003
20 October Press release: HIV/AIDS: European Research provides clear proof that HIV virus cannot pass through condoms
Commissioner Busquin's visit to Africa (29 August - 1 September) (click on any picture for a high-resolution image)
Jump to section: Mbeya Medical Research Centre, Tanzania Manhiça Health Research Centre, Mozambique Visit to Aventis, Pretoria, South Africa Speech at WHO's meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa Background information
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Visit to Mbeya Medical Research Centre, Tanzania (29-30 August)
Commissioner Busquin at the Mbeya Medical Research Centre
Photographs of the research centre
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Brochure ( 463 kB)
Photos taken at the mobile clinic at the village of Igurisi near Mbeya, Tanzania (30 August)
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Commissioner Busquin at Kihumbe, an African NGO that assists people in providing home-based care for AIDS patients. Kihumbe supports affected families and educates the community in voluntary counselling and testing to reduce HIV spread.
Photos: Anne Degrand-Guillaud, Research DG, European Commission, Brussels
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Visit to Manhiça Health Research Centre, Mozambique (31 August)
Brochure ( 1236 kB)
Commissioner Busquin and journalists at the research centre
Photos: Alexander Bohr, EC Delegation, Mozambique
Photographs of the research centre
Photographs of the hospital
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Visit to Aventis, Pretoria, South Africa
Visit to the Aventis Pharmaceuticals company in Pretoria - manufacturer of tuberculosis drugs
Photos: Frank Oberholzer, EC Delegation, South Africa
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Speech at WHO's meeting in Johannesbourg, South Africa
1 September  Speech (in French): Europe et Afrique ensemble pour la lutte contre les maladies de la pauvreté - Commissioner Busquin's speech to the annual meeting of the WHO's regional committee for Africa
Press release: European Commissioner Busquin presents clinical trials programme to African Health Ministers
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Background information
31 July, Press release: Combating poverty related diseases: European Commissioner Busquin to visit Africa to promote clinical trials programme (fr de)
Programme ( 12kB)
More details on EDCTP (): EDCTP at a glance (15kB), EDCTP background note (42kB), presentation slides (1 MB)
Country fact sheets () on Mozambique (33 kB), Tanzania (32 kB) and South Africa (28 kB)
Presentations () on HIV/AIDS (300 kB), Malaria (540 kB), Tuberculosis (316 kB)
Fact sheets () on poverty-related diseases (18 kB) HIV/AIDS (25kB), Malaria (27 kB), Tuberculosis (28kB)
EU-funded research in the fight against Tuberculosis
24 March Press release: World Tuberculosis day
Access to medicines
28 April Round Table on Access to Medicines Opening speech of Commissioner Busquin
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2002
13 December Press release: European Commission funded research leads to effective new malaria drug
12 November Press briefing (Heysel Conference) 1.4 MB
29 August Press release: EU teams up with developing countries to combat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (en fr de )
27 June Press release: European research yields guidelines for treatment of HIV-positive pregnant women and infants
EDCTP launch conference in Barcelona (19-20 April 2002)
Questions and Answers Photos of the conference Fact sheet 20 kB ( de es fr it pt) Press release: Europe mobilises full research potential to combat poverty-related diseases (fr de es it ) Media diary note (fr de es it pt)