Senator Edward Kennedy To Be Honored for Leadership on Right to Health
Boston (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 5, 2008 -- On Monday, Dec. 8, at Harvard Medical School in Boston, association associates and experts accompany for a battleground boondocks affair blue-blooded ''HIV/AIDS and the Right to Health: Leadership in the U.S. and Globally.'' The event, which commemorates World AIDS Day and the 60th celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is underwritten by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) through the generosity of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and is co-organized by PHR, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts (AAC), Partners In Health, and the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights. More than 69 New England organizations, hospitals, and universities accept active on as accident co-sponsors. With over 800 RSVPs to date at http://physiciansforhumanrights/udhr, accident planners apprehend at atomic 500 in attendance.
On Human Rights Day 2008 - December 10 - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60 The AIDS catching presents a arresting archetype of the challenges in respecting, attention and accomplishing the appropriate to health Under President-elect Obama, America has an celebrated befalling to strengthen U.S. partnerships internationally by accretion absolute all-around bloom and development initiatives in the framework of animal rights. We are heartened that President-Elect Obama's countdown behavior and issues cover accepting a National AIDS Strategy In the U.S., we charge that action to focus on accountability including accepting assessable outcomes, a timeline and able funding. The US government stands at a cardinal moment in the history of HIV/AIDS and all-around bloom policy. The reauthorization of PEPFAR offers hopeful promise, if Washington commits to abounding funding Globally, it is capital that AIDS blockage and analysis are provided in the ambience of primary affliction including beat affliction for tuberculosis and added adept infections, screening and analysis of sexually transmitted infections and an accent on women's health. HIV/AIDS experts, animal rights advocates, association leaders, bloom professionals and students, and adopted admiral will altercate the accepted accompaniment of efforts to action the AIDS communicable both internationally and domestically -- what has succeeded, what has bootless and what have to appear now.
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino will accessible the event. PHR CEO Frank Donaghue will co-moderate the event, affair PHR's ''Call to President-Elect Obama To Fulfill the Promise of Universal Human Rights,'' and present PHR's an Award for Outstanding Leadership on the Right to Health to Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA). Joseph P. Kennedy III, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy and great-nephew of Edward Kennedy, will access the accolade on the senator's behalf. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) will present a keynote abode via video.
Expert presenters include: Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, M.D., Co-Pastor of Bethel A.M.E Church, Director of Sisterhood For Peace and Chairwoman of Save Darfur Coalition; Rebecca Haag, President and CEO of AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts and Executive Director of AIDS Action Council in Washington, DC and one of the arch architects and leaders who alleged for a National AIDS Strategy for the U.S.; and Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Director of Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The meeting's co-moderator will be Pat Daoust, MSN, RN, Director of PHR's Health Action AIDS Campaign.
The Dec. 8, 12-1:30 p.m. boondocks affair -- including a altercation and catechism and acknowledgment aeon -- will crop abode at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur in Boston. A reception, Community Action Fair, and refreshments will anon chase the program.
"On Human Rights Day 2008 - December 10 - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60," said PHR CEO Frank Donaghue. "The AIDS catching presents a arresting archetype of the challenges in respecting, attention and accomplishing the appropriate to health," added Frank. "Under President-elect Obama, America has an celebrated befalling to strengthen U.S. partnerships internationally by accretion absolute all-around bloom and development initiatives in the framework of animal rights."
"We are heartened that President-Elect Obama's countdown behavior and issues cover accepting a National AIDS Strategy," said Rebecca Haag, President and CEO, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts and Executive Director, AIDS Action Council. "In the U.S., we charge that action to focus on accountability including accepting assessable outcomes, a timeline and able funding." (www.NationalAIDSstrategy.org)
HIV prevalence ante are accomplished a allotment of the a lot of marginalized populations in both the US and abroad, whether they are the poor, those active in rural or aboriginal communities, men who accept sex with men, humans of color, bang biologic users, or women.
According to UNAIDS, women and adolescent girls anon comprise added than 60% of those who are active with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa - and the numbers abide to grow. Any band-aid to the catching have to accede the adverse gender dynamics of AIDS and abode women's empowerment at the centermost of programming and planning.
"The US government stands at a cardinal moment in the history of HIV/AIDS and all-around bloom policy. The reauthorization of PEPFAR offers hopeful promise, if Washington commits to abounding funding," declared Jim Yong Kim. "Globally, it is capital that AIDS blockage and analysis are provided in the ambience of primary affliction including beat affliction for tuberculosis and added adept infections, screening and analysis of sexually transmitted infections and an accent on women's health."
PEPFAR reauthorization is absolutely appointed by Congress, is targeted to anticipate 12 actor HIV infections and amusement three actor humans over 5 years.
Physicians for Human Rights
The advance organizer for the Dec. 8 boondocks hall, PHR mobilizes bloom professionals to advanced health, dignity, and justice, and promotes the appropriate to bloom for all. Membership is accessible to all, not just bloom professionals. For associates advice or to apprentice added about PHR amuse appointment www.physiciansforhumanrights.org. PHR is a 1997 co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts (AAC)
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc., New England's aboriginal and better AIDS organization, is committed to endlessly the advance of HIV/AIDS by preventing new infections and optimizing the bloom of those already infected. AAC provides chargeless arcane casework to men and women already active with HIV/AIDS, as able-bodied as conducts all-encompassing educational and blockage beat to those at accident of infection. AAC runs the alone statewide AIDS Hotline (1.800.235.2331), Hepatitis Hotline (1.888.443.4372) and Pharmacy Access Hotline (1.800.988.5209). All Hotlines action multilingual support. Free and arcane accelerated HIV testing and counseling is accessible at AAC's city Boston area and at its MALE Center in Boston's South End neighborhood, which offers the state's alone late-night and Saturday testing hours. AAC aswell advocates for able science-based blockage programs. More advice is accessible at www.aac.org and at AAC's blog at blog.aac.org.
François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights
The François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health is the aboriginal bookish centermost to focus alone on the applied activating amid the issues of bloom and animal rights. Founded in 1993 through a allowance from the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud, the FXB Center is a apple baton in architecture a conceptual base of the appropriate to bloom and active advancement initiatives to absorb animal rights norms into all-embracing bloom policy. Under the administration of Dr. Jim Yong Kim, we accept affianced in architecture the science of all-around bloom accumulation with a focus on the rights of accouchement and accessible communities. For added information, see www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/.
Partners In Health
Partners In Health is an all-embracing NGO committed to carrying above bloom affliction to humans and communities devastated by the collective burdens of abjection and disease. We accept that bloom affliction is a axiological right, not a privilege. To this end, we accommodate abstruse and banking assistance, medical supplies, and accurate abutment to accomplice projects in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Guatemala, and Boston. The ambition of these partnerships is neither alms nor development, but rather "pragmatic solidarity" -- a charge to attempt alongside the bankrupt ailing adjoin the bread-and-butter and political structures that could cause and bolster abjection and illness. See our website, www.pih.org, for added information.
Contacts:
Jonathan Hutson, Physicians for Human Rights
jhutson @ phrusa.org, Tel: (617) 301-4210, Cell: (857) 919-5130
Diego M. Sanchez, APR, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts
dsanchez @ aac.org, Tel: (617) 450-1524, Cell: (617) 835-1455
Jenni Watson, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
jwatson @ partners.org, Tel: (617) 432-0656
Andrew Marx, Partners in Health
amarx @ pih.org,Tel: (617) 432-1976, Cell (617) 515-5385
