UN Secretary-General Announces Details of Global AIDS and Health Fund

In an address to the fifty-second World Health Assembly in Geneva, United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan detailed plans for the Global Aids and Health Fund. "The Fund would be governed by an independent Board, on which all significant stakeholders would be represented — including, of course, the governments of developing countries," Annan said. "In addition, there would be a small secretariat, to do the day-to-day administration, and a strong advisory body, on which the best international experts would be asked to serve."