Preventive education is the best vaccination.
He promised that close attention will be given to disseminating accurate information about methods of transmission, safe practices and the use of counselling services, formal and non-formal education and networks, to reach students, institutions and communities. Saying that the very survival of some societies was at risk, Mr Matsuura called for mobilization from the highest level of government and from all ministries, particularly ministries of finance, health and education. Not acting now would be a moral failure of unprecedented proportions , he said. Mr Matsuura characterized current levels of international aid for the fight against AIDS in Africa as grossly inadequate to meet the challenge. He called for a massive mobilization commensurate with the challenge.