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To be webcast live at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/globalhealth
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Earlier this year, President George W. Bush called for a reauthorization of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which is set to expire at the end of fiscal year 2008. The plan calls for an increase in funding from the initial 2003 commitment of $15 billion to $30 billion over the next five years.
On September 20, 2007, the Woodrow Wilson Center's Global Health Initiative and Environmental Change and Security Program will co-host a discussion on PEPFAR principles and the global AIDS response, featuring Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, U.S. Representative Nita M. Lowey of New York's 18th District, and Kent R. Hill, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
If you are unable to attend, this event will be webcast live at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/globalhealth.
What: Director's Forum: PEPFAR and the Global AIDS Response
Who: Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS, and Under
Secretary-General, United Nations; The Honorable Nita M.
Lowey, U.S. Representative, 18th District, New York, and
Chairwoman of the State, Foreign Operations, and Related
Programs Subcommittee on Appropriations; and Kent R. Hill,
Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID
When: Thursday, September 20, 2007, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Where: Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Flom Auditorium
The Woodrow Wilson Center is located in the Ronald Reagan
Building and International Trade Center at 1300 Pennsylvania
Avenue, N.W.
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