[Press Kit]

WORLD AIDS DAY
Wednesday, 1 December 1999
Conference Room 4
The Children Left Behind:
A symposium on children orphaned by AIDS
in observance of WorldAIDS Day
Morning Session
WELCOMING REMARKS
Kensaku Hogen, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information
OPENING SEGMENT 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Theo-Ben Gurirab, President of the fifty-fourth session
of the United Nations General Assembly
Louise Frechette, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS
Children orphaned by AIDS:
Precious Thomas (U.S.A.)
Khomsan Sang-sue-moon (Thailand)
Andrew Jackson Okurut (Uganda)
M'oderated by Alexandra Burke, Reporter, Chlldren " Express
Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States
FIRST PANEL 11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
CHILD CARE, CHILD WELFARE and CLINICAL ISSUES
Andrew Billingsley, Professor, University of South Carolina
Urban Johnsson, Regional Director, Eastern and Southern Africa, UNICEF
Mechai Viravaidya, Chairman, Population & Community Development Association, Thailand
and UNAIDS Ambassador
Geri Benoit-Prival, First Lady of Haiti
Beatrice Were, Coordinator, National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, Uganda