This session will highlight key issues and themes in the HIV epidemic as well as the response in Europe and Central Asia within the context of the conference theme and the UN goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support by 2010.

Chairs: Michel Kazatchkine and Nataliya Leonchuk.

Key presentations:

  • Un-prevented and prevented HIV cases - Anna Shakarishvili, Ukraine
  • Testing: the gateway to treatment? - Jeffrey Lazarus, Switzerland
  • Is there enough political commitment and funding? - Shona Shonning, Lithuania

When? July 22 from 11:00 -12:30
Where? Session Room 2