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Update from WHO's Department of HIV/AIDS
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Featuring
 Kevin M. De Cock
Incoming Director
Department of HIV/AIDS
World Health Organization
April 19, 2006
3-4 pm
Global Health Council
1111 19th Street, NW, Suite 1120
Washington, D.C.
 As the international fight against HIV/AIDS continues, the World Health Organization (WHO) takes the lead within the UN system in the global health sector response to HIV/AIDS. The HIV/AIDS Department provides evidence-based, technical support to WHO member states to help them scale up treatment, care and prevention services as well as drug and diagnostics supply to ensure a comprehensive and sustainable response to HIV/AIDS.
Over fifty people joined up to hear from the incoming director of WHO's Department of HIV/AIDS, Dr. Kevin De Cock. In this new role, Dr. De Cock will oversee all of WHO's work related to HIV/AIDS, focusing on initiatives to assist developing countries in scaling up their treatment, prevention, care and support programs. At the forum, Dr. De Cock discussed the WHO's strategy on addressing the global HIV/AIDS crisis.
Dr. De Cock is an infectious disease specialist, with expertise in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, liver disease and tropical diseases such as yellow fever and viral hemorrhagic fevers. As CDC Kenya Director, Dr. De Cock supervised programs and activities including the CDC Global AIDS Program's prevention work, the International Emerging Infections Program, a longstanding research collaboration with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and a collaboration with the World Health Organization for polio eradication. He has also served, among other posts, as Director of the CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Surveillance and Epidemiology in Atlanta, GA,USA.
The Policy Series is funded in part through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and with unrestricted educational support from Abbott Laboratories, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals and Pfizer Inc.
category: Global Health Council News : Other Events
contributed by Andrea Welch on 12 April 2006
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