AIDS in Asia: Facing India’s Challenges. Panel Discussion

[Guest guest]

Panel Discussion:

Inaugural Event - AIDS in Asia: Facing India's Challenges Cosponsored

by The Business coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC) and the Center for

strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Date: October 14th

8:00 am - 10:00 am

Location: New York

Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue, New York

Cost: The event is free of charge.As space is limited, please

register in advance. Phone: 212-517-ASIA

Through AIDS in Asia, a new initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda

Gates Foundation, the Asia Society will be joining those advocating

for recognition that the next wave of the HIV/AIDS pandemic will be

in Asia, and for policies and programs to stem it.

The Asia Society will launch AIDS in Asia with a simultaneous

discussion between experts in India and New York to discuss the

challenges of HIV/AIDS in Asia using the unique experience in India.

The sheer number of Indian citizens and the size of the country make

the potential impact of an unchecked AIDS epidemic staggering to

consider. The panelists will explore why the epidemic in India is

different from other regions of the world and focus on what we can

learn from India's research and experience with AIDS that will help

combat the epidemic there and throughout the region.

India

Holbrooke, Asia Society, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS

Ashoke *, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Meenakshi Dutta Ghosh*, National AIDS Control Organization

Geeta Sodhi, Swaasthya

Sachin Tendulkar*, Former Captain, National Cricket Team

New York

Teresita Schaffer, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Kate Bourne, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

Anil Purohit, François-Xavier Bagnoud Association

Geeta Rao Gupta, International Center for Research on Women

Allan Rosenfield, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

*invited

Web: http://www.asiasource.org/asip/

http://www.asiasociety.org/events/calendar.pl?event=14154

[May, the Indian audience also be permitted to watch the proceedings in Delhi!?

.. Moderator]