World AIDS Day 2003 12/1/2003
Live and Let Live (Stigma and Discrimination)
World AIDS Day is commemorated around the world on December 1 by highlighting progress made in the battle against the epidemic and reminding people how much still needs to be done.
Kaisernetwork.org brings you information on World AIDS Day-related events including webcasts; news headlines; access to studies and key facts; and links to resources and organizations around the world--with emphasis on this year's campaign focus: stigma.
Webcast Events
- "Kaiser Conversations on Health with DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) Co-founder Bono"
DATA Co-founder Bono talks with Kaiser Family Foundation Senior Visiting Fellow Jackie Judd, former correspondent with ABC News, about the spread of AIDS in Africa.
- "Youth and HIV/AIDS"
A special screening of excerpts from two new specials on youth and HIV/AIDS, Nick News: The Courage to Live: Kids, South Africa and AIDS, and A Walk In Your Shoes: Living With HIV/AIDS.
- HIV/AIDS in Brazil
Our report—prepared by Susan Dentzer, also a health correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer—features interviews with people who are on frontlines of Brazil's efforts.
- A kaisernetwork.org interview with Senator Mechai Viravaidya
Senator Mechai, who heads Thailand's Population and Community Development Association and who co-chairs the Community Program Committee for the XV International AIDS Conference, discusses with kaisernetwork.org the themes and messages he expects to emerge from the Conference, Thailand's role in providing ARVs and more.
- HIV/AIDS Prevention Experts Discuss How Bush Administration Can Prevent HIV Infections
A briefing/discussion with leading international HIV/AIDS prevention experts from Physicians for Human Rights' Health Action AIDS campaign on how the Bush Administration might achieve the stated goal of preventing 7 million new HIV infections.
- A kaisernetwork.org interview with UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot
Peter Piot talks with Jackie Judd, Kaiser Family Foundation Senior Visiting Fellow and former correspondent with ABC News, about the state of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and addresses recent efforts to expand access to treatment, lower drug costs and step up prevention activities.
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