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PARTNERING TO GET BACK ON TRACK TO END AIDS BY 2030
Partnering to get back on track to end AIDS by 2030
UNAIDS, PEPFAR and the Global Fund are hosting an event on the sidelines of the 76th UN General Assembly to invigorate and mobilize partners to end AIDS by 2030. The event will stress how efforts to end AIDS are critical
to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, to advancing the global response to COVID-19, to end inequalities and for pandemic preparedness.
Speakers
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS
Felix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Chair of the African Union
Angeli Achrekar, Acting United States Global AIDS Coordinator (PEPFAR)
Monica Geingos, First Lady of Namibia
Omar Abdi, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF
Usha Rao-Monari, Associate Administrator of UNDP
Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General
Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
Sbongile Nkosi, Co-Executive Director of the Global Network of People Living with HIV
Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2021, 13:00–14:30 New York time
Register: https://bit.ly/2XlkOcO
UNAIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) leads and inspires the world to achieve its shared vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. UNAIDS unites the efforts of 11 UN organizations—UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, UN Women, ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank—and works closely with global and national partners towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. Learn more at unaids.org and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
MEDIA CONTACT:
UNAIDS Geneva
Sophie Barton-Knott
tel. +41 79 514 68 96
bartonknotts@unaids.org
UNAIDS Media
tel. +41 22 791 4237
communications@unaids.org
Source: UNAIDS
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