The First Lady of Panama, Lorena Castillo de Varela, will host this high-level side event at the 69th World Health Assembly
WHAT
High-level side event hosted by the First Lady of Panama, Lorena Castillo de Varela, UNAIDS Special Ambassador for AIDS in Latin America
This session will focus on women and girls in the response to HIV. It will consider how best to further engage women and adolescent girls in designing and delivering essential programmes to meet their needs across three key areas: universal access to HIV treatment for women and girls, access to HIV prevention services for adolescent girls and young women and the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
WHEN
Monday, 23 May 2016, 12:45–14:15
WHERE
Palais Des Nations, Salle XXIII
WHO
Panellists include ministers of health from Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, El Salvador, Panama, Portugal and South Africa, the Ambassador of the United States of America to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Mark Dybul, and HIV activist Angelina Namiba.
UNAIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) leads and inspires the world to achieve its shared vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. UNAIDS unites the efforts of 11 UN organizations—UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, UN Women, ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank—and works closely with global and national partners towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. Learn more at unaids.org and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
