US Embassy meets Journalists

Ahead of 2012 AIDS Conference in Washington D.C

The USA Embassy in Accra will host and brief foreign journalists ahead of the upcoming twenty-first (21) biannual edition of the International AIDS Conference on Tuesday, 10th, July, 2012 at 2: pm.

This year’s AIDS International Conference which starts from Sunday 22nd –Friday, 27th, July 2012, will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Centre in Washington, D.C, the capital of the United States of America (USA).

Speakers expected to interact with the journalist at the forecourt of the Ghana USA Embassy are Deborah von Zinkernagel, Principal Deputy Coordinator, U.S. Department of State Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Diane V. Havlir, M.D., AIDS 2012 U.S. Co-Chair and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and Chris Collins, M.P.P., AIDS 2012 Conference Coordinating Committee Member and Vice President and Director of Public Policy at amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research.

According to officials at the Embassy, the event which is the first time to be hosted by the USA in over twenty years would also be used as the platform to highlight on the progress made in the past 30 years in HIV/AIDS research, prevention, treatment, and continuity of care and the challenges still to come as we move forward towards a vaccine, a cure, and an AIDS-free generation.

The Conference which is the largest and well participated by the various personalities and agencies responsible for the health sector around the globe is predicted to be a landmark event in the history of HIV/AIDS both in the United States.

They mentioned that this year’s International Conference will be an extraordinary one that would take place at a pivotal moment in the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.

For more than twenty-five years, the International AIDS Conference has played a central role in the global response to AIDS, marking the evolution of the epidemic and serving as a forum for the presentation of scientific advances, they emphasized.

The AIDS International Conference is expected to be attended by more than 20,000 participants and 2,000 journalists from approximately 200 countries are expected to convene at AIDS 2012.