Alongside specific programmes such as DAPHNE and STOP, some programmes running in the field of employment and social affairs can also support transnational projects and contribute to a better understanding and to exchanges of best practices, for instance:

STOP II should be adopted by the Council during the first half of 2001.

Given that Poland’s position, as expressed at the special session of the UN Assembly on the review of the Beijing Platform held in New York from 5 to 10 June 2000, is totally at odds with the acquis communautaire in the field of equal opportunities, especially as regards sexual rights and reproductive health, what measures does the Commission plan to take in order to check and ensure that Poland, as an applicant state, applies the principle of equality between men and women, actively encourages removal of inequalities and measures to combat discrimination in all areas, while also adopting the basic law on this subject derived from the case law of the Court of Justic ...[+++]e, together with the principles and objectives of the four equal opportunities action programmes and the STOP and DAPHNE programmes?

Given that Poland’s position, as expressed at the special session of the UN Assembly on the review of the Beijing Platform held in New York from 5 to 10 June 2000, is totally at odds with the acquis communautaire in the field of equal opportunities, especially as regards sexual rights and reproductive health, what measures does the Commission plan to take in order to check and ensure that Poland, as an applicant state, applies the principle of equality between men and women, actively encourages removal of inequalities and measures to combat discrimination in all areas, while also adopting the basic law on this subject derived from the case law of the Court of Justic ...[+++]e, together with the principles and objectives of the four equal opportunities action programmes and the STOP and DAPHNE programmes?

The lack of progress in reducing the burden of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis through support to strengthen health systems has brought these diseases to the centre of the development debate and has led, in recent years, to the launch of a series of major initiatives. These include: the International Partnership against AIDS in Africa (IPAA), the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), Roll Back Malaria, the Malaria Medicines Initiative (MMV) and the Stop TB Initiative.

I attended a total of nine meetings in which 20 people from various groups were involved, including the American Cancer Society, Arnold Communications, the Tobacco Control Quit Line, the Tobacco Product Liability Group, the Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco, the Massachusetts Education Clearing House, the Boston Prevention Centre, and Churches Organized to Stop Tobacco.