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XVII International AIDS Conference

August 3 – 8, 2008
GV Opening Ceremony Concept Paper Draft for Discussion

AIDS 2008
Global Village
The Global Village (GV) provides a space to share knowledge and skills, build
coalitions, and promote interactive learning among communities living with and
affected by HIV/AIDS, policymakers, researchers and other stakeholder groups. The
Global Village also allows the general public to access the conference and learn
about HIV/AIDS, in particular the community response.

The Global Village will strengthen and support the conference theme ‘Universal
Action Now’. It will also use the vision of the Community Programme Committee
(CPC) to guide the development of activities including the Youth and Cultural
Programmes.

Opening Ceremony
The inauguration event is a space that upholds the principles of human rights, non-
discrimination, access, gender, equity, justice and inclusion. It emphasizes the
human, social, economic and cultural aspects of local, national and global responses
to HIV/AIDS while building solidarity and encouraging collaboration and partnership
between and among stakeholders. The dynamic evolves around statements
conducted as a conversation through a "mock or real" talk show.

As the main objective of the Global Village is to reflect on and examine the
challenges of addressing HIV and AIDS in our communities the priority and focus of
this opening ceremony will be to highlight the civil society perspective. This
dedication ceremony that will officially open the Global Village will underscore the
above principals. In order to focus on the themes of the Conference, this ceremony
proposes to incorporate the following topics:

1) Universal access and low cost drugs: implementation of the Doha Declaration
(every country should have the right to produce low cost drugs for their people);
2) Full recognition of sexual and reproductive rights (people, specially women, have
the right to have a healthy and happy sexual life –in the way they prefer- as well as
to decide over their reproductive life);
3) AIDS's feminization: stressing the need of a concrete response to prevent HIV
among women and girls;
4) AIDS and violence: stopping violence against all communities affected by
HIV/AIDS particularly women and girls, sex workers, drug users, transgenders,
gays and lesbians.
5) Stigma, discrimination and fight against homophobia

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XVII International AIDS Conference
August 3 – 8, 2008
GV Opening Ceremony Concept Paper Draft for Discussion

Agenda
Cultural Performance

11:00 – 11:10 Transchina


Chinese performers group

Talk Show: Conversations with community representatives


11:00 – 11:40 Moderators: Anandi Yuvraj (CPC member and GV Co-chair)
Nizza Picaso (CPC and local community
representative)
Mirka Negroni (SPC member and GV Working
Group)

Peter Piot
UNAIDS Executive Director
Stressing the importance of the GV

Caitlin Padgett
Youth Pavilion Sub Committee Co-chair for the Mexico YouthForce
Stressing the participation of young individuals in the communitarian response to
HIV/AIDS

Ana Francis Mor


Cultural activist
Why Culture Matters!
Emilio Álvarez Icaza
President of the Mexico’s City Human Rights Commission

Dr. Mauricio Hernández


Sub Secretary of Prevention and Health Promotion
Ministry of Health

Cultural Performance
Kormix
11:40 – 11: 50 Cambodian young drug users/street kids hip hop group

Official Opening Declaration


Marcelo Ebrard,
11:50 – 12: 00 Mexico City Major
Major officially declares the Global Village open

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