"Global Forum on Health and Development" 7/10/2003
Summit of the African Union
The goal of this videoconference forum between African heads of state and global partners is to seal a joint commitment on scaling up action against HIV in Africa.
Part I. Challenges and Opportunities
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Part II. Resources and Priorities
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Event Chair: Graca Machel, Maputo, Mozambique
Maputo, Mozambique
Moderator: Harry McConnell, Director, Interactive Health Network.
President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, incoming president of the African Union; Kofi Annan, UN secretary general; Amara Essy, interim secretary general of the AU; President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, chairman of NEPAD (New Partnership for African Development); K.Y. Amoako, Economic Commission for Africa / United Nations under-secretary-general, chairman of the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA); H.E. President Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal, representing Western Africa; H.E. President Idriss Déby, Tchad, representing Central Africa; H.E. President Yoweri Museveni, Uganda, representing Eastern Africa; R.H. Pakalitha Mosisil, Prime Minister of Lesotho, representing Southern Africa; H.E. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria, representing Northern Africa; Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi, of Mozambique; Ebrahim Samba, WHO Regional Representative for Africa; Peter Piot, director, executive director UNAIDS; Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, director, Roll Back Malaria, WHO; Richard Feachem, chairman of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria; Bishop Dinis Sengulane, chairman, Facilitiators Group for RBM Programme, Mozambique; and Carol Bellamy, executive director, UNICEF.
London
Chair/Cooridnator: Andrew Chetley, executive director, Exchange.
Co-Chair/Coordinator:Luis Gabriel Cuervo, Interactive Health Network, British Medical Journal, Cochrane Initiative;
Gareth Thomas, MP, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for International Development; and Julian Lob-Levyt, DfID.
Geneva
Chair/Coordinator: Manjit Dosanjh, CERN.
David L. Heymann, executive director, Communicable Diseases Cluster, WHO.
Nairobi, Kenya
Chair/Coordinator: Miriam Were, chair, African Medical Research and Education Foundation (AMREF) and National AIDS Council of Kenya.
William Lore, professor of Medicine and Editor East African Medical Journal.
Durban, South Africa
Chair/Coordinator: Barry Kistnasamy, dean, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine.
Hoosen Coovadia, chair, HIV/AIDS, University of Natal; and Jacobus Louw, executive director, Informatics and Knowledge Management, MRC.
Washington
Chair/Coordinator: Egbe Osifo-Dawodu, sector manager, Human Development, World Bank Institute.
Mamphela Ramphele, managing director, The World Bank; and Claude Allen, deputy secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services.
New York
Helene Gayle, executive director, HIV AIDS, TB and Reproductive Health, Gates Foundation.
Dublin
Jeffrey Sachs, The Earth Institute, Columbia University.
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