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Global Health Council Commemorates World AIDS Day
Nov. 30, 2007
To commemorate World AIDS Day, the Global Health Council and its partners held a briefing and reception at the U.S. Capitol with the UNAIDS theme of Leadership: Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise.
Expert speakers, including Dr. Ward Cates of Family Health International (FHI), Dr. Robert Einterz, director of Indiana University AMPATH Project, and Dr. Amalia Del Riego of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), shared their analyses of the top HIV/AIDS issues for 2008. Among the topics that they emphasized watching closely are the results of a variety of clinical trials including those on tropical microbicides and HSV-suppression, as well as nutrition issues, and strategies that countries employ to strengthen their health systems for scaling up prevention efforts. Michele Moloney-Kitts, assistant coordinator at the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator also provided insights on critical issues that the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) will address in 2008.
The Ambassador of the African Union to the United States, Amina Salum Ali, thanked the many partners working to fight HIV/AIDS and implored them to continue their efforts. Representatives from FHI, the World Bank and PAHO also addressed the guests.
The event closed with an unveiling of the 25th Anniversary poster for the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial program and plans to mobilize civil society for the worldwide opening ceremony of the Candlelight Memorial, which will be kicked off in Malawi on May 18, 2008. Also on display was a copy of the very first Candlelight Memorial poster from 1983 commemorating the historic march in San Francisco when AIDS was just being discovered.
The Candlelight Memorial is one of the largest and oldest grassroots mobilization campaigns for HIV/AIDS awareness in the world.
To find out more about the Candlelight Memorial visit:
http://www.candlelightmemorial.org
category: Global Health Council News : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 14 November 2007
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