Regional Ministerial Meeting on
HIV and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
5-6 June 2009
Montego Bay, Jamaica
STATEMENTS & PRESENTATIONS
| 5 June 2009 |
Welcoming remarks |
| Honourable Rudyard Spencer, Minister of Health, Jamaica |
Opening remarks: |
Her Excellency Ambassador Sylvie Lucas, President, United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) |
Mr. Thomas Stelzer, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination & Inter Agency Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
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| Dr. As Sy, Deputy Executive Director, The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS) |
| Dr. Socorro Gross, Assistant Director, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) |
| Ms. Laura López, Secretary of the Commission, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) |
Keynote Speaker |
| Honourable Andrew Holness, Minister of Education, Jamaica |
Session 1 - HIV and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Feature Address |
| His Excellency Ignatius Karl Hood, Minister of Health Grenada |
| Panel 1 - Challenges of HIV as a Development Concern and the LAC Response |
| Mr. Jeffrey Lizardo, Senior Specialist in Health and Social Policies, Secretariat of State Economy, Planning and Development, Dominican Republic |
| Mr. Ruben Pecchio, Latin American Network of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS, Panama |
| Mr. Patrick Vincent, Managing Director, Foundation SOGEBANK, Haiti |
| Ms. Carole Ayoung, Executive Director, Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC) |
Session 2 – Review of Progress in the Response to HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Presentation of background document |
| Dr. César Núñez, Regional Director, UNAIDS Regional Support Team Latin America |
| Panel 2 - Challenges and Solutions in the Response to HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean in reaching Universal Access goals |
| Dr. José Antonio Izazola L., Director-General of the National Center for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, Ministry of Health, Mexico |
| Dr. Sheila Campbell Forrester, Chief Medical Office, Ministry of Health, Jamaica |
| Mr. Jorge López, Organización de Apoyo a Una Sexualidad Integral Frente al SIDA (OASIS), Guatemala |
| Dr. Miguel Fernández Galeano, Deputy Minister of Public Health, Uruguay, and President of CONASIDA-CCM |
Session 3 - Presentations of Best Practices and Policies in the Response to HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Dr. Mauro Teixeira de Figueiredo, Head of the Division for Technical Cooperation, Ministry of Health, Brazil |
| Ms. Elsa Ramirez, Office of Labour and Social Security, Honduras |
| Mr. Carl Brown, Executive Director, Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS, CARICOM Secretariat |
| Dr. Robert Carr, Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVCC), Jamaica |
| Ms. Roberta Clarke, Regional Representative for the Caribbean, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) |
| 6 June 2009 |
Session 4 – Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for HIV and Health |
| Mr. Armando Mendoza, ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean |
| Mr. Ginés González García, (English / Spanish) President, Latin American and Caribbean Association of Health Economics |
| Mr. Lelio Marmora, Regional Team Leader Latin America & the Caribbean, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria |
| Dr. Socorro Gross, Assistant Director, PAHO/WHO |
Session 5 – From Montego Bay to Geneva |
| Feature Address |
| Sir George Alleyne, Secretary General’s Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean Region and Director Emeritus of PAHO |
| ‘Key messages to be delivered to the Economic and Social Council’ |
| Mr. Thomas Stelzer, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination & Inter Agency Affairs, DESA |
Closing Session |
| Her Excellency Ambassador Sylvie Lucas, President, ECOSOC |
| Dr. Grace Allen Young, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Jamaica |