INAUGURAL SESSION
Thursday, 3 December 2015, 17:30–19:00
Auditorium I, Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC)
Welcome to the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health
E Jane Carter, President of The Union
Inaugural lecture: Turning the tide against lung disease in South Africa
Speaker: Mr Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, Deputy President of South Africa
Overcoming TB/HIV to live an empowered life: a testimonial
Speaker: Juliet Vivien Nalumba (Uganda), Site Coordinator for mothers2mothers in Uganda
Chairs: E Jane Carter (USA), Stacie C Stender (South Africa)
PLENARY I
Friday, 4 December 2015, 09:00–10:00
Auditorium I, CTICC
Panel Discussion: The state of TB and HIV on the 27th anniversary of World AIDS Day
Mark Dybul, Executive Director, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Switzerland)
Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS (Switzerland)
Linda-Gail Bekker, Deputy-Director, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre; President Elect, International AIDS Society (South Africa)
Constance Manwa, TB survivor from a Union-supported project (Zimbabwe)
Moderator: Meera Senthilingam, journalist and broadcaster, CNN Vital Signs/BBC World Service
PLENARY II: Saturday, 5 December 2015, 09:00–10:00
Auditorium I, CTICC
Tackling tuberculosis in key affected populations
Drug resistance and the contribution of zoonotic TB
Paul van Helden, Director of Stellenbosch University’s Medical Research Centre (South Africa)
Ubuntu and research involving communities with a high burden of TB
Nicholas Bhengu, Pastor, Uniting Presbyterian Church in Pietermaritzburg (South Africa)
Defeating XDR-TB, disability and stigma: an ordinary call for extraordinary measures
Phumeza Tisile, first South African female survivor of XDR-TB and activist (South Africa)
Chairs: Aaron Oxley (UK), Stacie C Stender (South Africa)
PLENARY III: Sunday, 6 December 2015, 09:00–10:00
Auditorium I, CTICC
Taxing health harming products and creating health promotion funds: A win-win health strategy for governments: Panel discussion
Kaul Singh Thakur, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Law and Revenue, Government of Himachal Pradesh, India (India)
Jeremias Paul, Undersecretary, Department of Finance, Government of the Republic of the Philippines (The Philippines)
Moderators: Yussuf Saloojee (South Africa), José Luis Castro (France)
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