Side-event to the High-level Meeting on AIDS, United Nations Headquarters, 8 to 10 June 2011
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in collaboration with Health Canada, USAID, US State Department, Global Partnership for Disability and Development, ILO, DESA, UNICEF and WHO.
AIDS and Disability Partners Forum is a collaboration to enhance integration of an inclusive and accessible approach in AIDS programming for persons with disabilities. (See also Disability and HIV/AIDS)
Co-Chairs
- Ms. Jan Beagle, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director
- Professor Nora Ellen Groce, Director Leonard Cheshire Disability & Inclusive Development Centre, University College London
Panelists
- Mr. Robert Clay, Director, Office of HIV/AIDS, USAID [TBC]
- Mr. Stephen Lewis, Co-founder, Co-Director, AIDS-Free World
- Ms. Mary Muthoni Rop, Thika Disabled Fighting HIV and AIDS, Kenya
- Dr. Etienne Krug, MD, MPH, Director, Violence and Injury, Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization
- Mr. Richard Kabeto Matlhare, Director National AIDS Coordinating Agency, Botswana
- Ms. Deborah Von Zinkernagel, Principal Deputy Global AIDS Coordinator,Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator
For More Information:
Dr Emelia Timpo (timpoe@unaids.org) 646-666-8006 or Sara Peillex (peillexs@unaids.org) 646-666-8026
