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World AIDS Day 2009

 
Begins:   Dec 01, 2009 09:00
Ends:   Dec 01, 2009 17:00

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Agenda for
World AIDS Day 2009

Keeping the Promise, Investing in the Future
Linking HIV/AIDS, Food Security and Maternal and Child Health

 Tuesday, December 1, 2009
9:00 am – 10:45 am (following breakfast at 8:30 am)
Preston Auditorium
The World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, D.C.
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AGENDA

9:00 am

Welcome
Debrework Zewdie, Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program

Remarks
Robert Zoellick, President, World Bank Group (by video)

Beldina Atieno, Teacher and mother living with HIV, Kenya 

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director, World Bank

Address
The Honorable Jack Lew, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State 

HIV Treatment and Food Security: Recent Research Findings from Haiti (PDF 866kb)
Jean Pape, Director, GHESKIO, Haiti, and Professor of Medicine, Cornell University

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Frank Sesno, Director, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University, and former CNN Senior Vice President and Bureau Chief

  • Ambassador Eric Goosby, US Global AIDS Coordinator
  • Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
  • Joy Phumaphi, Former Minister of Health, Botswana, and Former World Bank Vice President, Human Development Network
  • Julian Schweitzer, Acting Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank

Discussion (questions are invited from the audience, through the moderator)

 

10:45 am 

Adjourn

 

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