Monday:The Future of Living with AIDS: Gender, Economic Crisis, and Global Health Policy

[Guest guest]

Learn

about the progress and challenges ahead in HIV and AIDS with international

community leaders from Kenya,

Nigeria, and India,

each openly living with

HIV and

advocating for sustained global commitment to HIV and AIDS

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The Future of Living with AIDS:

Gender,

Economic Crisis, and Global Health Policy from the Perspective of Leaders

Living with HIV

The

International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) and the Woodrow

International Center

for Scholars invite you to join this special event on:

Monday,

February 8, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Woodrow International

Center for Scholars

Reagan

Building and International Trade

Center

One Woodrow Plaza

1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Presentations and

Discussions with:

Asero Ochieng of Kenya

is a board member of Eastern Africa Treatment Action Movement (EATAM) and

National Network of African People living with HIV (NAP+).

Rolake Odetoyinbo of Nigeria is the Executive Director of Positive

Action for Treatment Access and one of the most widely recognized AIDS

activists in the country as author of a weekly column in Nigeria's most widely read

newspaper and host of a television show with over 30 million viewers.

Dr. Tokugha Yepthomi of India

is a Physician and Researcher at YR Gaitonde Center for AIDS Research and

Education (YRG CARE) and the founding president of the Indian Network of people

living with HIV.

Moderated by

Zaidi, International Coordinator of the International Treatment Preparedness

Coalition.

Each of our distinguished guests will give remarks on the current situation of

access to AIDS treatment, care, and prevention in their country, with a special

focus on the situation of women and communities most at risk of HIV

infection.

For directions to the Woodrow

Center

and a map please open the link here:

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=contact.directions

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The ITPC is the primary global coalition of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)

and their supporters dedicated to advocacy on HIV/AIDS treatment access. The

coalition is led by international committees of PLWHA and their advocates, all

of whom have strong expertise in HIV/AIDS treatment and other interventions

needed by affected communities in their own countries.