Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka and Mr Munyes, along with Dr Sheila Tlou, Minister of Health in Botswana and Canon Special Session on HIV Gideon Byamugisha, African Network of Religious Leaders Living with HIV or AIDS (ANERELA+) will also participate in a Special Session on AIDS from 1:00 to 2:30 pm in the KICC Plenary Hall.

Other highlights on the final day of the International Women’s Summit on HIV and AIDS for the media:

Plenary: “If Women Really Matter, Where’s the Leadership and the Money?”
Moderated by Julie Gichuru
9:00-10:30 am, Plenary Hall

Town Hall Meeting: Youth, Sex and HIV
Moderated by Sizwe from MTV Base
11:00-1:00, City Hall, Nairobi

Special Session: HIV and AIDS in Africa
1:00-2:30, Plenary Hall
Hon Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka, Deputy President of South Africa
Hon John Munyes, Minister of State for Special Programmes, Office of the President of Kenya
Dr Sheila Tlou, Minister of Health, Botswana
Canon Gideon Byamugisha, African Network of Religious Leaders Living with HIV or AIDS (ANERELA), Uganda

Closing Plenary
2:30-5:00, Plenary Hall
Call to Action – Alice Welbourn, Stepping Stones
Responses:
Dr Musimbi Kanyoro, General Secretary, World YWCA
Incoming Chairperson, ICW
Deborah Landey, Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS
Naomi Watts, UNAIDS Special Representative (via video)

Background

Over 1800 participants are participating in the first international women’s summit on HIV and AIDS, organised by the World YWCA in partnership with the International Community of Women living with HIV and AIDS.

The summit opened on 5 July with presentations by His Excellency, the Hon. Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya, United Nations’ Deputy Secretary-General Dr Asha-Rose Migiro, World Health Organisation Director-General Dr Margaret Chan and UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot. Fourteen women received “Women Leading Change” awards during the opening session.

The conference seeks to mobilize urgent responses to rising HIV infection rates among women and girls in every region. Key issues to be addressed include the feminization of the pandemic, gender inequality, health care and treatment, sexual and reproductive rights, women’s leadership and economic empowerment. The summit is hosted by the World YWCA as part of its World Council, its governing assembly held every four years.

Media must register to attend meetings at the KICC. Registration can be done on-site. Please bring your press credentials. A full schedule of events, bios, speeches and other information is available on request and via www.worldywca.org.

Webcasts of selected sessions will be available via www. kaisernetwork.org

The Pacific Islands AIDS Foundation is also providing video footage available free-of-charge from the following FTP site:
FTP HOST: ftp://ftp2.mediaworks.co.nz
USERNAME: hivconftv3; PASSWORD: nairobi13; FOLDER: NAS_TEMP_HIVCONF

For more information

Kaburo Kobia, director of communication, World YWCA
T: +254 72 070 212, kaburo.kobia@worldywca.org
Sara Speicher, IWS press room coordination and interview requests
T: +254 72 070 5111, sara@communicationpoint.org