"Challenges Facing China’s Response to AIDS" 1/13/2004
Asia Society, Washington, D.C., & New York, N.Y.
In this two-city discussion, experts on HIV/AIDS in China meet to consider how the HIV/AIDS epidemic in China is different from other regions of the world and what a coordinated and comprehensive response to the epidemic must include
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Welcome
- Nicholas Platt, president, Asia Society
- Robert Hathaway, director, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Opening remarks
- Elisabeth Rosenthal, moderator, The New York Times
China's AIDS epidemic in a global context
- Peter Piot, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
HIV/AIDS in the context of China's newly emerging market economy
- Bates Gill, Center for Strategic and International Studies
China's response to AIDS amidst broader public health concerns, including SARS
- David Ho, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
The role for non-government organizations and other institutions
- Sheila Mitchell, Family Health International
Sustaining the public awareness-prevention effort in China
- Marwyn Samuels, U.S.-China AIDS Foundation
Closing Remarks
- Nicholas Platt, president, Asia Society

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