AHG/Dec.125 (XXXIV)
ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AFRICAN FUND FOR AIDS CONTROL
The Assembly,
REAFFIRMS the decisions made in the "Dakar Declaration on the AIDS Epidemic in Africa
(1992) and the Tunis Declaration on AIDS and the Child in Africa (1994);
REQUESTS the International Community to adequately consider Africa in the global resources available for HIV/AIDS in order to facilitate prevention and wider accessibility to current research findings, especially on drugs and other medicines necessary in the overall responses to this infection. To that effect:
CALLS UPON the International Community, especially the pharmaceutical companies
manufacturing Anti-retroviral and other drugs necessary in the management of HIV/AIDS patients to consider wide accessibility to those drugs by lowering their retail price;
APPRECIATES and SUPPORTS the proposal by the Republic of Cote d'lvoire to establish
a Solidarity Fund to help treatment of patients from Africa;
REQUESTS the Secretary of the OAU to pursue this proposal with the Governmen t of Cote d'lvoire and concerned agencies and report to the Thirty-fifth Summit.