HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE TO HOLD ROUND TABLE ON UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT CAMPAIGN AGAINST HIV/AIDS ON FRIDAY
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HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE TO HOLD ROUND TABLE ON UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT CAMPAIGN AGAINST HIV/AIDS ON FRIDAY
19960124 A coordinated campaign in the United Nations Secretariat worldwide to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS is one of the issues to be considered at a round-table discussion, to be held from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, 26 January, in the Trusteeship Council Chamber.Brought together by the Office of Human Resources Management, experts in the round table will examine how the United Nations can lead the way in the battle against AIDS, and how it can better deal with the problem as it affects its own staff.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that over 14 million adults are infected with HIV/AIDS, 8 million men and 6 million women. Every day, another 6,000 -- over half of them women -- are infected.
The experts will include Dr. Jonathan Mann, Founding Director of the WHO Global Programme on AIDS, Director of the Francois Xavier Bagnoud Centre for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, Chairman of the Global AIDS Policy Coalition and author of AIDS in the World; Dr. Ingrid Laux, United Nations Medical Director; Dr. Andree Deckner, Medical Adviser to the Department of Peace-keeping Operations; Mark Hamilton, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/ United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Staff Council focal person for HIV/AIDS in the work place and Vice-President, Standing Committee on Occupational Health and Safety of the Federation of International Civil Servants Association (FICSA); and Nick Fucile, United Nations staff, AIDS activist and trained AIDS counsellor.
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