Table of Events
UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS New York
25-27 June 2001
UPDATED: 24 June
Updated Daily
Calendar is also available on www.un.org/ga/aids under “Calendar”
MONDAY, 25 JUNE
TIME
TYPE OF EVENT
SUBJECT
Ceremonial unfolding of
AIDS Memorial Quilt,
photo opportunity
PARTICIPANTS
ORGANIZATION
RESPONSIBLE
Ceremony and Exhibit
8-9am
NGO preparatory
meeting
9am-1pm
Opening Plenary
Session
Statements by
Secretary-General and
the President of the
Assembly; opening
debate in the plenary
GA Hall
9am-4pm
Side Event
Responses to an Urban
HIV/AIDS Epidemic: New
York City Models
New York City
Department of Health
9:30-11am
Side event
Gender and HIV/AIDS: an
African human rights and
human security
perspective”
NYC Dept. of
Health Public
Labs (1st Ave.
and 27th St.)
CR 4
WILDAF
Elize Delport at
(212) 753 8781
9:30-11am
NGO caucus meeting
CR B
ICASO and CONGO
Richard Burzynski
Boogie Khutsoane,
CEO, Women in Law
and Development in
Africa (WILDAF)
Delegates
Entrance
Lobby
UN/UNAIDS/Names
Foundation
CR 4
ICASO and CONGO
CONTACT
PERSON
8-8:15am
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25 June
UN Secretary-General,
President of GA, people
living with HIV/AIDS,
civil society
representatives, others
Richard Burzinski
(ICASO), Leslie Wright
(CONGO)
VENUE
Julie Rhoud at the
Names Foundation.
Pool coverage for
visual media: Sonia
Lecca 212-963-6934
Richard Burzynski
416-340-8484 x243
or Leslie Wright
212-986-8557
All plenary sessions on
closed circuit TVV.
Tickets to press gallery
distributed in Media
Center at 8.30am. For
access to booths by
visual media, 3rd floor
liaison desk, 212-9637756 or 3353.
Amado Punsalang
212-447-2864
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Table of Events
UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS New York
25-27 June 2001
TIME
TYPE OF EVENT
SUBJECT
10:30-11am
Press conference
11-11:30am
Press conference
11:30am12noon
Press conference
11:30am1pm
Side Event
11:30am1pm
11:30am1pm
Side Event
11:30am2:30pm
12noon12.30pm
Meeting of First Ladies
followed by lunch
Press briefing
Daily noon briefing
1-1:30pm
Press briefing
Daily press briefing
1-3pm
Side Event
Myanmar and HIV/AIDS:
The Silent Crisis?
1:15-2:45pm
Luncheon hosted by SG
for Heads of State and
Government
Side Event
General Assembly
Special Session on
HIV/AIDS
Christian Response to
Declaration of
Commitment
Impact of HIV/AIDS on
Older Carers
TB and HIV: Intimate
Allies
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25 June
PARTICIPANTS
Minister of International
Development, Canada
Juan Somavia, DirectorGeneral, ILO
President of the General
Assembly Harri Holkeri
(Finland)
VENUE
ORGANIZATION
RESPONSIBLE
226
CONTACT
PERSON
416-340-8484 x243
Leslie Wright
212-986-8557
Ellen Wright
212-848-1139
Tom Netter
+41 79 520 6341
Susan Markham 212963-1895
226
ILO
226
UN
CR 4. By
invitation only.
World Council of
Churches
Brenda Devine
502-569-5279
TBD
CR B
HelpAge International
TBD
Dag
Hammarskjold
Auditorium
CR7
STOP TB
Jeanne Smith
212-927-6912
Petra Heitkamp
226
UN
Manoel de Almeida e
Silva, 212-963-7161
and Susan Markham,
212-963-1895
CR 2
UN/UNAIDS
Anne Winter
+41 79 2134312
Church
Center. By
invitation only.
DDR
Soros Foundation;
Open Society
Institute
UN
Dea Varsovczky
212-548-0600
Nane Annan;
First Ladies
Spokesman for the
Secretary-General and
Spokeswoman for the
President of the General
Assembly
Peter Piot, UNAIDS;
Carol Bellamy, UNICEF;
Gro Harlem Brundtland,
WHO, Mark Malloch
Brown, UNDP (TBC)
Hosted by SecretaryGeneral
Pool coverage for
visual media: Sonia
Lecca 212-963-6934
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25-27 June 2001
TIME
TYPE OF EVENT
SUBJECT
1:15-2:45pm
Side Event
Multi-Country HIV/AIDS
programme in Africa
(MAP)
Gender & HIV/AIDS;
Programme for
Prevention
1:30-3pm
Side Event
1:30-3pm
Side Event
Challenge of HIV/AIDS in
Rural Africa
1:45-2:15pm
Press conference
Care and Treatment for
HIV/AIDS
2-4pm
Side event
2:30-3pm
Press conference
Crossing Boundaries –
Global Youth
Partnerships
Update on the Status and
trends of the epidemic
3pm
3-6pm
Press conference
2nd Plenary Session
3-6pm
1st Round Table
PARTICIPANTS
Pascoal Mocumbi, Prime
Minister, Mozambique;
Leon-Alfred Opimbat,
Minister of Health,
Congo;
Marie Marcelle
Deschamps, GHESKI
NGO, Haiti;
C.P. Thakur, Minister of
Health, India
Michel Bachelet,
Minister of Health, Chile;
Fatoumata Traore Nafo,
Minster of Health, Mali;
Daniel Tarantola, WHO;
Julia Cleves, UANIDS;
Badara Samb, UNAIDS
Vina Nadjibuloa; Aisha
Satterwhite
Bernhard Schwartländer,
UNAIDS; Daniel
Tarantola, WHO; Helene
Gayle, CDC
President of Nigeria
Continuation of debate
HIV/AIDS Prevention
and Care
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25 June
Chaired by Prime
Minister of St Kitts and
VENUE
ORGANIZATION
RESPONSIBLE
CONTACT
PERSON
CR 3
World Bank
Keith Hansen
202-473-4680
CR 4
UN Population Fund
Dr Akinyele Dairo
212-297-5259
CR B
CR 2
Action pour le
Developpement de
l’Afrique a la base
UNAIDS/UNICEF
UNICEF
Conference
Room
CR 2
UNAIDS
Andrew Shih
212-584- 5024
WHO lead
WHO: Winnie MpanjuShumbusho and
CR2
GA Hall.
Open to
press.
ECOSOC
Chamber.
Andrew Shih
212-584-5024
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25-27 June 2001
TIME
TYPE OF EVENT
SUBJECT
PARTICIPANTS
Nevis
UN Organizations:
Gro Brundtland, WHO
Koichiro Matsuura,
UNESCO
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid,
UNFPA
Pino Arlacchi, UNDCP
VENUE
ORGANIZATION
RESPONSIBLE
Can be
viewed by
press from
gallery of
overflow
room (CR 3).
No audiovisual
coverage.
UNFPA
UNDCP
UNESCO
UNV
Dag
Hammarskjold
Auditorium
UNDP/ILO/GBC/CCA
CR 4
World Food
Programme
UWESO
Other speakers TBC
3:30-5pm
Side Event
Business As Partners
3.30-5.00pm
Side Event
3:30-5pm
Side Event
Hunger, Poverty and
HIV/AIDS
Uganda: Communitybased Orphan Care
5-5:30pm
Press conference
5:30-7pm
Side Event
5:30 – 8pm
Side Event
Mark Malloch Brown,
UNDP; Festus Mogae,
President of Botswana;
Frankly Lisk, ILO; Bill
Roedy, President of
MTV Networks Int’l and
Chair of Global Business
Council on HIV/AIDS;
Maurice Templesman,
Harvard AIDS Inst.;
Denice Coement, Ford
Motor
FAO, IFPRI, IFAD, WFP
CR B
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Impact of AIDS: A
Psychological
Perspective
Panel Discussion: Moving
Targets: Adressing
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25 June
Guy Tousignant, CARE
International;
Dag
Hammarskjold
Auditorium
Open Society
Institute-Soros
International Fed. Of
Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers
American
Psychological
Association
Care International
CONTACT
PERSON
Kingsley Gee +41 22
7914834; UNFPA:
Suman Mehta 212297-4915; UNESCO:
Alfatih Hamad 212963-5995; UNAIDS:
Frances McCaul +41
22 791 4662; JeanLouis Lamboray +41
22 791 4756; Jos
Perriens +41 22 791
4456.
Hakan Bjorkman
212-906-6080
Patricia Kennedy
212-963-1981
CARE’s NY office: 212686-3110
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25-27 June 2001
TIME
TYPE OF EVENT
SUBJECT
PARTICIPANTS
HIV/AIDS among Mobile
and mIgrant Populations
6-6:30pm
Press conference
Prime Minister of St.
Kitts and Nevis (Chair of
1st Round Table)
6-7pm
6.30-8.30pm
NGO Review Meeting
Reception, Exhibition
and Photography
7-9pm
3rd Plenary Session
Continuation of debate
7:30-9pm
Religious service
Praise and Healing:
Harlem Congregations
Invite the World to
Worship
TBC
Side Event
TBC
Side Event
Women Welcoming
Women at UNGASS
Harlem AIDS Service
Organizations - Open
House and Walking Tour
Reception and
presentation of the
Nelson Mandela Award
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25 June
UN Secretary-General
Peter Piot, UNAIDS
Drew Altman (Kaiser
Family Foundation)
Mark Malloch Brown,
UNDP, John Demsey
(MAC Cosmetics)
VENUE
ORGANIZATION
RESPONSIBLE
CONTACT
PERSON
Foundation
400 W. 59th
Street
CR2
CR 4
DDR
GA Hall.
Open to
press.
Canaan
Baptist Church
(132 W. 116th
St.)
ICASO and CONGO
UNDP/MAC
Foundation/Kaiser
Family Foundation
Hyacinth Morgan
212-906-5328 and
Ginia Pati
917-367-2068.
Press contacts:
Mamadou Bah
212-906-6175 and
Clark Moore.
Balm in Gilead; Africa
Action; Harlem
Congregations for
Community
Improvement;
Harlem Directors
Group;
Harlem Hospital;
Harlem United
Judith Little
212-730-7381
Iris House
Iris House
Harlem United
(125th St.). By
Invitation only.
Harlem Directors
Group
Valarie Yancey
646-548-0100 x221
Patrick McGovern
212-531-1300
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