MEDIA ADVISORY

 

 

When: Monday, 9 June 2008, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

 

Where: UN Conference Room 2, UN Headquarters, New York

 

What: For the first time ever, heads of government, public health and business leaders, heads of UN agencies and activists will meet at UN Headquarters to confront a global health that could undermine investments in life-saving drug treatment for people living with HIV.

 

Tuberculosis (TB) is taking the lives of nearly a quarter of million people living with HIV each year. TB is the number one cause of death among people living with HIV in Africa. Worldwide it is a leading cause of death in this population.

 

This first HIV/TB Global Leaders’ Forum, which will conclude with a call for action on HIV/TB, has been convened by the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to Stop TB, Dr Jorge Sampaio and endorsed by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

 

Who:

 

Moderator: Sir David Frost

 

Speakers will include:

Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General

Faure Gnassingbe, President of Togo

Armando Guebuz, President of Mozambique

Elías Antonio Saca González, President of El Salvador

Dr Jorge Sampaio, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to Stop TB

Nafis Sadik, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for AIDS in Asia

Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General

Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS

Dr Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Mark Dybul, United States Global AIDS Coordinator

Richard Holbrooke, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Business Coalition

 

Accreditation for journalists:

 

Journalists are invited to the HIV/TB Global Leaders’ Forum. To attend, they will need to  obtain accreditation by filling in this registration form and sending it to harropl@who.int.

 

Webcast: Both the HIV/TB Global Leaders’ Forum and the UN press conference will be webcast at: http://www.un.org/webcast/

 

 

Press Conference

 

When:  9 June, 12:30 PM

Where: UN Press Briefing Room

Who:  Dr Jorge Sampaio, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to Stop TB

Winstone Zulu, HIV/TB activist

 

Teleconferences

 

Teleconference I

 

When: 9 June, 9:00 EST

 

Who:  

Dr Jorge Sampaio, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to Stop TB

Dr Kevin Decock, Director of the WHO HIV Department

Dr Mario Raviglione, Director of the WHO Stop TB Department

Dr Marcos Espinal, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership

Winstone Zulu, HIV/TB activist

 

Registration for the teleconference:

 

To be called in, please send contact details, including phone number, to Robyn Shepherd, rshepherd@results.org

 

To call in, dial: +1 719-325-2192.

 

 

Teleconference II

 

When: 9 June, 12:00 EST

 

Who:

Moderator: Sir David Frost

Speakers:

Dr Mario Raviglione, World Health Organization

Dr Kevin Decock, World Health Organization

Zackie Achmat, Founder and chairman of the Treatment Action Campaign,

Lucy Chesire, HIV/TB activist

 

How:

Call-in number: (1) 877-719-9789

Name of call: TB/HIV Press Conference

 

For more information on the HIV/TB Global Leaders’ Forum, please visit

http://www.stoptb.org/events/hivtbleaders/default.html.

 

Contacts:

Judith Mandelbaum-Schmid, Stop TB Partnership, mobile +41 79 254 6835, schmidj@who.int.

 

Glenn Thomas, WHO Stop TB Department, mobile +41 79 509 0677, thomasg@who.int

 

 

 

 

Judith Mandelbaum-Schmid – Communications Officer
Stop TB Partnership Secretariat World Health Organization WHO/STB/TBP 20, Avenue Appia CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland	Telephone: +41 22 791 2967 Mobile: +41 79 254 6835 Fax: +41 22 791 4886 Email: schmidj@who.int