africa: new WHO DG pledges to boost aids fight

Dr. Jong-Wook Lee has assumed the position of World Health Organisation director general, saying that he will boost the organisation's commitment to combating HIV/AIDS by providing antiretroviral drugs to three million HIV-positive people in developing countries by 2005, Agence France-Presse reports. Lee, a South Korean physician who has worked at WHO for 19 years, succeeds Gro Harlem Brundtland.