Tim France

Tim France has worked for the World Health Organisation's Global Programme on AIDS, the United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS, and various non-governmental organisations; his main focus was writing and editing HIV/Aids-related technical guidelines and policy materials, as well as developing information-dissemination strategies. He was co-founder of Health & Development Networks and scientific editor of the British Journal of Haematology and the European Journal of Cancer. He lives in northern Thailand.

The United Nations and Aids: learning from failure

The five-year day of reckoning for the most significant political promises and commitments on HIV/Aids has arrived. At a special session of the United Nations general assembly in New

By Tim France

/ 29 May 2006