The AIDS Conference with a difference, to make a difference
Friday, November 01, 2002 Issued by the Chair of the SA AIDS Conference 2003
Professor Jerry Coovadia, Chairperson of the XIIIth International AIDS Conference held in Durban in July 2000, announces the launch of the South African AIDS Conference 2003. The Conference will be held at Durban's International Convention Centre from 4 to 8 August 2003.
Prof Coovadia, who holds the Victor Daitz Chair of HIV/AIDS Research and is co-Director of HIVAN (Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking), both based at the University of Natal in Durban, will chair this first South African AIDS Conference.
"There is a complaint," he says, "probably justifiable, that there are too many meetings and conferences on HIV/AiDS. While this may seem to be so, we in South Africa are exposed to a catastrophe of massive proportions."
"This Conference aims at nothing less than providing a comprehensive,holistic and precisely relevant programme on HIV/AIDS for all stakeholders, including community representatives, business and the media. There is no equivalent meeting serving such a purpose. This event follows directly from the hugely successful and landmark International AIDS 2000 Conference, and we have the organisers' assurance of a worthy successor to the 2000 Conference."
The South African AIDS Conference 2003 will be unique in that it will combine biomedical science with community agendas to form a broader African perspective on the epidemic. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear and share expert findings and recommendations from all sectors, including the medical profession, government departments, NGO's, international organisations, the private sector and the media.
The South African AIDS Conference 2003 will be organised by the same non-profit organisation that planned and managed the successful 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban in 2000.
For more information, contact Tilda Reyneke at the South African AIDS
Conference 2003 office on:
Tel: (012) 481 2059
Fax: (012) 481 2083
or e-mail: [email protected]
Postal address:
PO Box 74789
Lynnwood Ridge 0040
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