Amorim heads the UN’s efforts to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria

Brazil’s former foreign relations minister and board member of
Instituto Lula and its Africa Initiative, Celso Amorim, was named
chairman of the executive board of Unitaid, the United Nations’ entity
which organizes the acquisition and distribution of medicines to
developing countries.

Amorim’s name was put forward by Brazil’s president Dlima
Rousseff. He nows takes on the challenge to increase the number of
countries donating to the initiative.

Unitaid was created in 2006 by the joining efforts of the
governments of France, Brazil, Chile, United Kingdom and Norway with
the objective of creating innovative financing mechanisms to buy
medicines against Aids, tuberculosis and malaria in developing
countries.

Instituto Lula and its workers congratulate Celso Amorim and hope
that in leading Unitaid he continues to help build a more just and
less unequal world.

On July 4th, Celso Amorim will one of the main speakers at a conference in São Paulo  organized by Instituto Lula and other
entities to discuss and defend Brazil’s foreign relations policies
during the governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma
Rousseff.