Table of Events
UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS New York
25-27 June 2001
UPDATED: 26 June
Updated Daily
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TUESDAY, 26 JUNE
TIME
TYPE OF EVENT
SUBJECT
PARTICIPANTS
VENUE
8:30-9am
NGO daily
preparatory meeting
Richard Burzinski
(ICASO), Leslie Wright
(CONGO)
CR 4
9-9:30am
Press Conference
S226
9-9:30am
Side Event
Launch of Global Private
Sector Initiative on
HIV/AIDS, the private
sector’s response to the
Secretary General’s Call
to Action
Mr Lars Engqvist, Minister
of Health, Sweden
Secretary-General and key
business leaders
9-11am
Side Event
Civil Society Forum on
HIV/AIDS in Africa
Speakers from ActionAid,
UNAIDS and AFRICASO
9am-1pm
9am-4pm
4th Plenary Session
Side Event
Continuation of debate
Responses to an Urban
HIV/AIDS Epidemic:
New York City Models
9:30-10am
Press conference
Business Involvement in
HIV/AIDS
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26 June
Bill Roedy, President of
MTV Networks Int’l and
Chair of Global Business
Council on HIV/AIDS; Carl
Ware, Exec. VP, CocaCola; Richard Holbrooke,
former US Ambassador to
ORGANIZATION
RESPONSIBLE
CONTACT
PERSON
ICASO and CONGO
Richard Burzynski
416-340-8484 x243
or Leslie Wright
212-986-8557
Visitors Centre
Private Dining
Room TBC
UNFIP/Global
Business Council on
HIV/AIDS
Georgia Franklin
+44 7770 553827
Ben Plumley
212-326-7021
Nathalie Han
917-367-2094
UNDP Staff
Lounge 3rd Floor
ActionAid,
AFRICASO and
UNAIDS
Nathan Nshakira
+256 77220002
New York City
Department of Health
Amado Punsalang
212-447-2864
Global Business
Council on HIV&AIDS
(GBC)
Clark Moore 212-5845039.
GA Hall
NYC Dept. of
Health Public
Labs (1st Ave.
and 27th St.)
CR2
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Table of Events
UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS New York
25-27 June 2001
TIME
TYPE OF EVENT
SUBJECT
9:30-11am
Side Event
GAVI: Lessons Learned
9:30-11am
Side Event
International AIDS
Candelight Memorial
Gathering
10-10:30am
Press conference
10am-1pm
2nd Round Table
HIV/AIDS and Human
Rights
PARTICIPANTS
the UN; Peter Piot,
Executive Director,
UNAIDS.
Tomris Turmen, WHO
Isabelle de Zoysa, WHO
Press conference
11-11:30am
Press conference
11:3012noon
Press conference
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26 June
CR B
Global Health Council
Meeting
The Church
Centre, 44th St.
Bernard Kouchner,
Minister of Health, France;
Charles Josselin,
Ministero f Cooperation
and Francophone Affairs
Chaired by Health
Minister of Poland
CR2
UN Organizations:
Carol Bellamy, UNICEF
Mary Robinson, OHCHR
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid,
UNFPA
Noeleen Heyzer,
UNIFEM;
Angela King, Special
Adviser on Gender
Issues and the
Advancement of Women
10:30-11am
VENUE
Maitre Abdoulaye Wade,
President of Senegal
Bertie Ahern, Prime
Minister of Ireland
International AIDS Vaccine
Initiative, with Dr Seth
Berkley; Mr Wayne C.
ECOSOC
Chamber. Can
be viewed by
press form
gallery of
overflow room
(CR 3). No
audio-visual
coverage.
ORGANIZATION
RESPONSIBLE
CONTACT
PERSON
WHO; UNICEF;
Rockefeller
Foundation; GAVI
Global Health Council
Heidi Lawson 212- 824
7762
UNICEF lead
UNIFEM
UNHCHR
Office of the Special
Adviser on Gender
Issues and
Advancement of
Women
UNICEF: Mark Stirling
212-326-7475;
UNIFEM: Stephanie
Urdang 212-906-6400;
ILO: Cindy Berman
212-697-0150 x106;
UNAIDS: Frances
McCaul +41 22
7914662; Miriam
Maluwa +41 22
7914675
Matt Matassa 202-833
5900
CR 2
CR 2
John Deady
212-204-7164
226
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Table of Events
UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS New York
25-27 June 2001
TIME
TYPE OF EVENT
SUBJECT
11:30am1pm
Side Event
11:30am1pm
Side Event
11:30am1pm
Side Event
Where are we in the
development of an AIDS
vaccine?
Women and Prevention:
Dual Protection and the
Female Condom
Family, Youth and AIDS
12-12:30am
Press briefing
Daily noon briefing
12:30-1pm
Press conference
12 :30-3pm
Side event
1-1:30pm
Press briefing
1–4pm
Side event
1:15-1:45pm
Press conference
Organizing and
Advocacy around
HIV/AIDS: Youth &
Students
Daily press briefing
Encuentro
Latinoamericano
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26 June
PARTICIPANTS
Koff, Senior VicePresident for Research
and Development
TBD
VENUE
ORGANIZATION
RESPONSIBLE
CONTACT
PERSON
Dag
Hammarskjold
Auditorium
CR B
IAVI
Female Health
Foundation
Sarah Joy Albrecht
301-270-1182
Richard Wilkins; Henry
Mahasi, Kenya; Tochi
Ugochukwu, Nigeria;
Michael Ochieng, Kenya
Spokesman for the
Secretary-General and
Spokeswoman for the
President of the General
Assembly
President of Kenya, Mr
Daniel arap Moi
Adam Taylor; Imani
Duncan
CR 4
Kennedy Center for
International Studies
Renee Green
646 286 4756
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UN
Manoel de Almeida e
Silva, 212-963-7161
and Susan Markham,
212-963-1895
Kathleen Cravero,
UNAIDS; As Sy, UNAIDS;
Thoraya Obaid, UNFPA;
Moiuf Adalekam, UNDCP;
Noeleen Heyzer, UNIFEM
Puerto Rico, Argentina,
Mexico, Guatemala and
others.
CR 2
UN/UNAIDS
Anne Winter
+41 79 2134312
The New York
Foundation,
Room 2925 –
Empire State
Building
Latino Commission
on AIDS; Ryan
Center, Musica
Against Drugs,
Harlem Directors
Group
Daniel Leyva 212-675
3288 x 227
Mr Grzegorz, Health
Minister of Poland (Chair
226
CR 2
UNIFEM
Conference
Room
3
Table of Events
UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS New York
25-27 June 2001
TIME
TYPE OF EVENT
SUBJECT
1:15-2:45pm
Side Event
The Impact of HIV/AIDS:
Implications for Poverty
Reduction
1:15-2:45pm
Side Event
Briefing on Development
of Microbicides
1:15-2:45pm
Side Event
1:15-2:45pm
Panel discussion
Panel Discussion on
Orphans – UNICEF
Orphans Special Event
Prevention of Mother-toChild Transmission of
HIV
1:30-2:45
Luncheon
Latin America and the
Caribbean
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26 June
PARTICIPANTS
of 2nd Round Table)
Mark Malloch Brown,
UNDP; Juan Somavia,
ILO; Paramanga ernest
Yonly, Prime Minister,
Burkina Faso; Mildred
Aristide, First Lady of Haiti;
Reverend Gideon, Uganda
Clare Short UK; Peter Piot,
UNAIDS; Stefano Vella,
Inter. AIDS Society;
Purnima Mane, Population
Council; Lincoln Chen,
Rockefeller Foundation;
Siripan Kanshana, Ministry
of Public Health, Thailand;
Tshidi Moeti, WHO;
Florence Ngobeni, Chris
Hani Baragwanath
Hospital, South Africa;
Nathan Shaffer, CDC,
USA;
Sheila Dinotshe Tlou, Dept
of Nursing Education,
Botswana;
Marco Antonio de Avila
Vitoria, Ministry of Health,
Brazil
Government delegates
and NGOs from Lat. Am. &
the Caribbean
VENUE
ORGANIZATION
RESPONSIBLE
CONTACT
PERSON
CR 7
UNDP/ILO
Hakan Bjorkman
212-906-6080
CR 4
UK mission/UK Dept.
for International
Development/
Rockefeller
Foundation/
Population Council/
UNAIDS
UNICEF
Tim Thomas
212-873-2936
WHO
Dr Kingsley Gee
212-963-5996
Inter-American
Development Bank;
PAHO
IDB: Ernest Massiah
202-320-5465;
PAHO: Peter Mertens
202-974-3484
Dag
Hammerskjold
Auditorium
CR 3
DDR
Mark Connolly 212-824
6325
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UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS New York
25-27 June 2001
TIME
TYPE OF EVENT
SUBJECT
1:30-3pm
NGO Caucus
Meeting
Richard Burzinski
(ICASO), Leslie Wright
(CONGO)
1:30-3:15 pm
Side Event
Panel on Orphans and
Vulnerable Children
1:45-2:30pm
Press conference
The Status of Global HIV
Prevention
2:30-3pm
Press conference
LoveLife, South Africa’s
national HIV prevention
program for youth
3-6pm
5th Plenary Session
Continuation of debate
3-6pm
3rd Round Table
The socio-economic
impact of the epidemic
and the strengthening
of national capacities
to combat HIV/AIDS
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26 June
PARTICIPANTS
Carol Bellamy, UNICEF;
Harry Belafonte; Ablola
Tilley-Gyada; Mark
Stirling, UNICEF;
Farai Mahaso, Zimbabwe;
Geena Gonzalez,
Philippines
Moderated by Drew
Altman, pres., Kaiser
Foundation, and Patti
Stonesifer, co-chair and
pres., Gates Foundation,
Awa Coll-Seck, Minister of
Health, Senegal; Peter
Piot, UNAIDS; Helen
Gayle, U.S.CDC; Daniel
Tarantola, WHO; Michael
Merson, Yale U. School of
Public Health.
Michael Sinclair, Kaiser
Family Foundation; J.
Fortuin, loveLife Director,
of Media Programming;
loveLife youth
spokespeople
Chaired by TBC
UN Organizations:
Mark Malloch Brown,
UNDP
Juan Somavia, ILO
VENUE
ORGANIZATION
RESPONSIBLE
CONTACT
PERSON
CR B
ICASO and CONGO
Dag
Hammarskjold
Library
Auditorium
UNICEF Special
Event
CR 2
Kaiser Family
Foundation, Gates
Foundation, UNAIDS
Clark Moore
212-584-5039
Andrew Shih
212-584-5024
CR 2
Kaiser Family
Foundation
Clark Moore
212-584-5039
UNDP lead
UNDCP
ILO
ECA
UNDP: Hakan
Bjorkman 212-9066080; UNDCP: Moruf
Adelekan +431 26060
4442; ILO: Frank Lisk
+41 22 7996668 and
GA Hall. Open
to press.
ECOSOC
Chamber. Can
be viewed by
press from
gallery of
overflow room
Richard Burzynski
416-340-8484 x243
or Leslie Wright
212-986-8557
Itai Madamombe
212-326-7412
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Table of Events
UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS New York
25-27 June 2001
TIME
TYPE OF EVENT
3:30pm
Press Conference
3:30-5pm
Side Event
3:30-5pm
Side Event
TBC
4-4:30pm
Press conference
TBC
Press conference
4:30pm
Press conference
5pm
Press conference
5-7pm
Side Event and
Reception
5:30-7pm
Side Event
5:30-7pm
Side Event
6-6:30pm
Press conference
SUBJECT
Dialogue with PWAs,
GNP+ and government
officials; photo
opportunity for press.
Religious Reflections on
HIV/AIDS Prevention
PARTICIPANTS
VENUE
Pino Arlacchi, UNDCP
K.Y. Amoako, ECA
(CR 3). No
audio-visual
coverage.
Mr Harry Belefonte,
Goodwill Ambassador
UNICEF; and Mr Mark
Sterling, UNICEF
Remarks by SecretaryGeneral. Astrid Heiberg,
Red Cross Red Crescent;
Stuart Flavell, GNP+
S226
ORGANIZATION
RESPONSIBLE
Cindy Berman 212697-0150 x106;
UNAIDS: Clara Diaz
+41 22 7914518 and
Robert Hecht +41 22
791 4355.
Shima 824 6949
CR 4
Red Cross Red
Crescent and GNP+
Encho Gospodinov
212-338-0161
Dag
Hammarskjold
Auditorium
Religion Counts
Serra Sippel
202-986-6093
Rockefeller
Foundation
George Soule
Microbicides
Mary Robinson, UNHCHR
(TBC)
Mary Robinson, UNHCHR
(TBC)
International Congress
for AIDS Asia-Pacific
(TBC)
Living with AIDS:
reception to launch
photo exhibit
School AIDS Education:
New Models for Called
Up Responses
Securing Supply of
Condoms/Essential
Products for HIV/AIDS
Programmes
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Myriam 3-2932
S226
Susan Rice
TBC (chair of 3rd Round
CONTACT
PERSON
Pierre Peyrot 646-6020305
Church House
Save The Children
Dag
Hammarskjold
Auditorium
CR B
Jerusalem AIDS
Project
John Snow Research
and Training Institute
Andrew Johnson
212 370 2460
John Durgavich
703-528-7479
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UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS New York
25-27 June 2001
TIME
TYPE OF EVENT
SUBJECT
PARTICIPANTS
VENUE
ORGANIZATION
RESPONSIBLE
CONTACT
PERSON
Table)
6-7pm
NGO Review Meeting
Richard Burzinski
(ICASO), Leslie Wright
(CONGO)
6-8pm
Reception
Reception hosted by the
President of the General
Assembly
7.00-9.00pm
6th Plenary Session
Continuation of debate
7-10pm
Side event
TBC
Side event
TBC
Side event
Global Treatment
Access Campaign
(GTAC) Meeting
Implementing HIV
Treatment and Care:
Provider Guidelines and
Education
HIV/AIDS in the former
Soviet Union and in
Central and Eastern
Europe
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26 June
CR 4
GA President
ICASO and CONGO
Richard Burzynski
416-340-8484 x243
or Leslie Wright
212-986-8557
Delegates Dining
Room
GA Hall. Open
to press.
Maharaja
Restaurant
Offices of the NY
State Department
of Health AIDS
Institute
Population
Council (2nd Ave
& 47th St)
Global Treatment
Access Campaign
NY State Department
of Health AIDS
Institute
Dr. Bruce Agins
212-268-6142
Soros Foundation;
Open Society
Institute
Dea Varsovczky
212-584-0600
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