Lobby & Advocacy

New Arrivals

• Council of the Euroean Union: Conclusions on Progress on the European Programme for Action to confront HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis through External Action (2007-2011)
  • November 2009
  • PDF, English
  • Press release about the 2974th EXTERNAL RELATIONS Council meeting in Brrussels, 17 November 2009
  • The Council notes with concern that, in spite of the progress made, these three diseases continue to kill millions of people every year and are undermining social growth and development and seriously hampering efforts to achieve all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Election News

Members of the relevant working groups In the current German Goverments coalition's negotiations (October 2009):

• Working group Foreign Affairs / Development / Defense / Europe
  • Franz Josef Jung (CDU), Werner Hoyer (FDP), Eckart von Klaeden (CDU), Peter Hintze (CDU), Andreas Schockenhoff (CDU), Arnold Vaatz (CDU), Michael Stübgen (CDU), Christian Schmidt (CSU), Thomas Silberhorn (CSU), Christian Ruck (CSU), Peter Gauweiler (CSU), Herbert Frankenhauser (CSU), Ingo Friedrich (CSU), Birgit Homburger (FDP), Wolfgang Gerhardt (FDP), Hellmut Königshaus (FDP), , ichael Georg Link (FDP), Florian Toncar (FDP)
  • see www.spiegel.de

• Working group Health / Care
  • Ursula von der Leyen (CDU), Phillip Rösler (FDP), Annette Widmann-Mauz (CDU), Silke Lautenschläger (CDU), Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU), Wolfgang Zöller (CSU), Gerda Hasselfeldt (CSU), Barbara Stamm (CSU), Markus Söder (CSU), Daniel Bahr (FDP), Heinz Lanfermann (FDP), Wolfgang Heubisch (FDP)
  • see www.spiegel.de

• Working group Education / Research / Innovation
  • Annette Schavan (CDU), Andreas Pinkwart (FDP), Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU), Thomas Rachel (CDU), Stefan Müller (CSU), Max Lehmer (CSU), Ludwig Spaenle (CSU), Cornelia Pieper (FDP), Patrick Meinhardt (FDP), Ulrike Flach (FDP)
  • see www.spiegel.de
    

Documents

• Open letter Dr. Guido Westerwelle, FDP-Parliamentary Group, on his election success
  • October 2009
  • PDF, English
  • Letter congratuling the FDP and its leader,  Dr. Guido Westerwelle, the designated new foreign minister of Germany, on his election success, wishing him all the best for the upcoming task of forming a new coalition government and reminding him about his duty to set important political accents and to insist on a stronger effort in the fight against the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
    
  • by Action against Aids Germany

• Open letter to the Secretary General Ban Ki Moon
  • June 2009
  • PDF, English
  • Re: Report on Progress made in the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS.