UNGASS 2008 Events

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Dear All,

UNGASS

2008 Events

Below you will find a listing of events happening around the

UNGASS 2008 Review meeting in New York

City. For more information about the official and side

events, please click here.

http://www.ua2010.org/en/UNGASS/UNGASS-2008/UNGASS-2008-Events

Monday, 9 June

9:30-11:00 Launch

of " Securing Our Future " the report of the CHGA - Panel Discussion on

" Keeping the Promise: Regional Lessons in the Progress Towards Universal

Access " UN Economic Commission

for Africa

UN Conference Room 7 (open access)

9:30-11:00 Panel

Discussion on the Report of the Asia AIDS Commission

Asia AIDS Commission, UNAIDS RST for Asia and

the Pacific UN Conference Room 2 (open access)

8:30–15:00 Civil Society Orientation and Caucus

This is an opportunity to better understand how to get the

most out of the meetings, to network, to plan advocacy and make recommendations

for future reviews. CS Task Force Conference Room 1 (open access)

11:00 - 13:00 Universal Access to

Affordable HIV/AIDS Diagnostics andTreatment: In Search of Sustainable Solutions

UN-Office of the High-Representatives for the

Least Developed Countries (OHRLLS), Office of Special

Advisor on Africa (OSAA),

UNAIDS UN Conference Room 2 (Open Access)

13:00 - 14:30 Supporting Countries in

Strengthening National AIDS Strategies World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF,

UNESCO, ILO,

UNAIDS Secretariat Delegates Dining Room (Limited Access)

13:15 - 14:45 Promoting UN System-Wide

Coherence in the AIDS

Responses at Country Level UNAIDS Secretariat, UN

Development Group UN Conference Room 2 (Open Access)

15:00 - 18:00 Parliamentary Briefing

Inter-Parliamentary Union, UNDP,

UNAIDS Secretariat

Conference Room 7 (Limited

Access)

15:00-18:00 Gender, Human

Rights of Sexual Minorities and Progress towards

Universal Access to HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care Treatment and

Support

Programs

American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), Global

Forum on MSM and HIV, UNDP and UNAIDS Secretariat tba

15:00–18:00

Global Leaders Forum to Stop TB-HIV Co-infection

Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General to Stop TB,

WHO, UNAIDS Secretariat, World Bank, EU, and the Global Fund

to Fight

HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria Conference Room 2 (open access)

18:00- 21:00

Awards Gala of the Global Business Coalition on AIDS, TB and

Malaria

Global Business Coalition on AIDS, TB and Malaria (GBC) tba

18:00-20:00 Advancing

Women’s Leadership and Advocacy in AIDS Leadership Ford Foundation (320

East 43 Street)

18:00 - 19:30

Interfaith Service

Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance,

UNFPA, UNAIDS Secretariat

Saint ’s Church-Corner of 54th and Lexington (Open Access)

Tuesday, 10 June 2008

900 - 1300

Official Events

13:15–14:45

Overcoming barriers in educating young people about sex and

HIV

UNESCO, UNAIDS, UNFPA, International Planned

Parenthood-Western Hemisphere

Delegates Dining Room (limited

access)

13:15–14:45

ARVs, Refugees and Displaced Persons Government of Canada,

UNHCR and BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

UN Conference Room 6 (Open Access)

15:00 -21:00 Official events

15:00 -18:00

Official event: Panel 1- How do we build on results achieved

and speed up progress towards universal access by 2010 - moving on to reach the

MDGs by 2015

open to Member

States and observers and

civil society representatives

15:00 -18:00

Official event: Panel 2- The challenges of providing

leadership and political support in countries with concentrated epidemics

open to Member

States and observers and

civil society representatives

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

08:30–09:45

Accelerating scale-up of PMTCT: Stories of hope UNICEF and

WHO on behalf of Interagency

Task Team on the Prevention of HIV Infection in Pregnant

Women, Mothers and their Children

Delegates Dining Room (limited

access)

10:00 - 13:00 Official events: Panel 3 -

Making the response to AIDS work for women and girls - Gender equality and AIDS

open to Member States and observers and civil society

representatives

10:00 - 13:00: Official events: Panel 4 - AIDS:

Multigenerational Challenge - Providing a Robust and Long Term Response

open to Member States

and observers and civil society representatives

13:15–14:45 Parliamentary Action on AIDS

Inter-Parliamentary Union,

UNAIDS Delegates Dining Room (limited access)

15:00–21:00 Official Events

15:00–16:30

Official Events: Panel 5: Resources and Universal Access:

Opportunities and limitations

open to Member

States and observers and

civil society representatives

Exhibits and Booths

26 May-20 June

Body Mapping Exhibit

Location: UN Visitors Lobby (Opening reception on 10 June,

18:00-20:00)

Organisers: Permanent Mission

of Canada, Permanent Mission of Tanzania,

Permanent Mission of Zambia,

UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat

2-13 June

HIV and the MDGs Poster Display

Location: Colonnade leading from the public lobby to

basement conference rooms

Organisers: UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat

9-11 June

Common Booth

Location: Conference Room 1 Hallway

Organisers: UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat

9-27 June

Photo exhibit: UN Relationship with Groups Living with HIV

Location: Staff Lounge

Organisers: UNDP

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