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Aids in Asia

Positive Lives, Ordinary People:
Art and Action in the Fight Against AIDS in China

Media, Art, and Social Policy:
New Tools to Fight Stigma and Discrimination of HIV/AIDS

HALF-DAY SYMPOSIUM

Date: June 13, 2005
Venue: Jin Jiang Hotel, No. 59 South Maomin Road, Shanghai, China
Organizing Sponsors: Asia Society
Major Collaborating Partners: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Collaborating Partners: Ogilvy & Mather Group Xinmin Weekly

Draft Agenda

08:30-08:35 Welcome
Zuo Xuejin, Executive Vice President, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

08:35-08:45 Opening Remarks
Vishakha Desai, President, Asia Society
Wang Ronghua, President, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

08:45-08:55 Plenary Remarks
Yang Xiaodu, Vice Mayor, Shanghai Municipal People's Government

08:55-09:25 Keynote Address
Wang Longde, Vice Minister, Ministry of Health, P. R. China

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09:25-10:10 Session I - New Leadership: Private Sector and Non Governmental Organizations
Moderator: Kevin Frost, Vice President for Global Initiatives and Director of TREAT Asia, American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)
Thomas Cai, Project Director, AIDS Care China
Marina Mahathir, President, Malaysian AIDS Council
Jing Jun, Director, Social Policy Research Institute, School of Public Policy, Tsinghua University

10:10-10:25 Tea Break

10:25-11:10 Session II - New Tools: Media and Art
Moderator: Li Xiguang, Academic Dean, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University
Bob Meyers, President, National Press Foundation
Kevin Ryan, Director, Positive Lives

11:10-11:55 Session III - New Directions: Social Policy
Moderator: Ray Yip, Director, US CDC Global AIDS Program, China
Xia Guomei, Director, Research Center for HIV/AIDS Public Policy, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Ni Zheng, Deputy Director, Shanghai Minhang Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Li Yifei, Managing Director, MTV Networks China

11:55-12:00 Closing Remarks
Zuo Xuejin, Executive Vice President, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

12:00-13:30 Lunch



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