Juneia Martins Batista from CUT Brazil represents trade unions and the civil society at the first thematic panel of the UN High Level Meeting on HIV&AIDS (08 June 2011, 10h00-13h00)

Ms Juneia Batista, Health Secretary of Central Unica dos Trabalhadores (CUT) Brazil, was a speaker at the Panel 1 “Shared Responsibility: a New Global Compact for HIV” together with the Executive Director of UNAIDS Michel Sidibe, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, and Minister of Development Cooperation of Dennmark.

Not only this panel opened the HLM. It provided with an opportunity for a high level political discussion about the new landscape of leadership in the HIV/AIDS response, and a good visibility of trade unions. Juneia’s presentation was well supported from the floor, including the Governments of South Africa and Brazil.

A video recording of the session can be found here:
UNGA 2011 HLM on AIDS: Thematic Panel discussion 1 “Shared responsibility – a new global compact for HIV” 08.06.2011 10h00-13h00
http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/06/panel-1-shared-responsibility-new-global-compact-for-hiv-2011-high-level-meeting-on-aids.html

UNGA 2011 HLM on AIDS: Thematic Panel discussion 1 “Shared responsibility – a new global compact for HIV” 08.06.2011 10h00-13h00 – Summary discussion

http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/06/summary-of-panel-discussion-1-denzil-l-douglas-saint-kitts-and-nevis-2011-high-level-meeting-on-aids.html

And the press release about the Panel 1 can be found here:

http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2011/june/20110608apanel1/