Physicians for Human Rights

HIV/AIDS & the Right to Health:
Leadership in the US and Globally
A Town Hall Meeting with
US Senator John F. Kerry

Commemorating World AIDS Day and
the 60th Anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Special Award Ceremony to honor US Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Presented by A. Frank Donaghue, CEO, Physicians for Human Rights

Speakers include:
Honorable US Senator John F. Kerry 
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, MD
Co-Pastor, Bethel A.M.E.Church; Director, Sisterhood For Peace; Chairwoman of Save Darfur Coalition
Rebecca Haag
President and CEO of AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts; Executive Director of AIDS Action Council in Washington, DC
Jim Yong Kim, MD
Director of François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Chair of Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Moderated by:
Pat Daoust, MSN, RN
Director, Health Action AIDS Campaign at Physicians for Human Rights

This event is FREE and open to the public. Lunch will be served.

Click here for directions available from the Joseph B. Martin Conference.

Elected officials, HIV/AIDS experts, health professionals, students and community leaders from across New England will join for a discussion on US domestic and global AIDS policy and its connection to the fundamental right to health.    The AIDS epidemic presents a striking example of the challenges in respecting, protecting and fulfilling the right to health.  HIV prevalence rates are highest among the most marginalized populations in both the US and abroad, whether they are the poor, those living in rural or indigenous communities, men who have sex with men, people of color, injection drug users, or women. During this forum we will recognize that the right to health is the foundation to providing comprehensive evidenced-based HIV prevention, treatment and care to all those in need, both here at home and across the globe. The right to health is enshrined in international law, yet the United States lags in recognizing this right. This forum will call on President-Elect Obama to ensure the right to health globally and in the US, including in the way the US addresses the HIV/AIDS pandemic. 

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