AEGiS-PRn: World AIDS Day At The United Nations, November 30: `I Care ... Do You?' Highlights The Role of Volunteerism In Addressing the Epidemic

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World AIDS Day At The United Nations, November 30: `I Care ... Do You?' Highlights The Role of Volunteerism In Addressing the Epidemic

PRNewswire - November 28, 2001

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/-- The United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) are organizing an observance of World AIDS Day on 30 November 2001, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The town-hall meeting, "I Care ... Do You?," will focus on the initiative, engagement and power of individuals, from those working at the community, town and village levels to national leaders and international celebrities, in making a difference in the fight against AIDS. Key themes will be leadership, outreach to and by young people, volunteerism, and the involvement and power of celebrities as well as the media.

Shashi Tharoor, the Interim Head of the Department of Public Information, will begin the program with welcoming remarks. Han Seung-soo, President of the 56th Session of the General Assembly, and Louise Frechette, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, will deliver opening statements.

The program will be moderated by Daljit Dhaliwal, anchor of "World News for Public Television" (ITN, London). Participants include Nane Annan, lawyer, artist, advocate, author and wife of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director, UN Population Fund (UNFPA); Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM); Kenneth Thomas, Deputy Director for International Affairs, White House Office of National AIDS Policy; Mathilde Krim, Founding Chairman and Chairman of the Board, American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR); Danny Glover, Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Development Fund (UNDP); Wendy Fitzwilliam, Miss Universe 1998 (Trinidad and Tobago), Goodwill Ambassador for HIV/AIDS and founder of the Hibiscus Foundation created to heighten AIDS awareness in Trinidad and Tobago; Anick Supplice, youth activist on HIV/AIDS and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for Youth (Haiti); and Brigitte Syamalevwe (Zambia), national UN Volunteer working with the Greater Involvement of People with HIV/AIDS initiative.

Other participants include Rev. Canon Gideon Byamugisha, an Anglican priest living with HIV/AIDS (Uganda); DK and Waris, fashion designers representing Gen Om Fights AIDS in South Asia, an organization which raises funds through the fashion and music industries in the U.S. to support HIV education programs in India; Denise Quinones-August, Miss Universe 2001 (Puerto Rico); Debra Fraser-Howze, President and CEO, National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (BLCA); Charlotte Mjele, youth activist on HIV/AIDS (South Africa); Blaine Trump, Vice-Chair, God's Love, We Deliver; and Tom Viola, Executive Director, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

The program will include a performance by a group of South African actors who are currently performing in The Lion King, and a reading by South African poet Evert Eden.

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