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UNAIDS

Global Forum on MSM and HIV

02 August 2008

“The Invisible Men: Gay Men and other MSM in the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic”, was hosted by Global Forum on men who have sex with men (MSM) and HIV on 1-2 August in Mexico City.

The two day forum focused on coordinating a response to the large gaps in funding and services that currently exist for MSM living with and at risk for HIV and call for a scale up HIV funding and human rights protections for men who have sex with men. UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot addressed the forum. 

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1 Dr. Peter Piot UNAIDS Executive Director, during his participation in the pre-conference of the Global Forum of MSMGF “Working against HIV and for the Health and Human rights of Men who have Sex with Men in Mexico City on 1 August.
  
2 Don Baxter Subdirector of the Australian Federation of Organizations of AIDS and Dr. Peter Piot Executive Director of UNAIDS, during the pre-conference of the Global Forum of MSMGF “Working against HIV and for the Health and Human rights of Men who have Sex with Men in Mexico City on 1 August.

  
3 UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot addresses the audience of the Global Forum of MSMGF “Working against HIV and for the Health and Human rights of Men who have Sex with Men in Mexico City on 1 August. 

4 Dr. Peter Piot UNAIDS Executive Director addressing to the assistants of the First World-Wide March against the Homofobia and the Discrimination in Mexico City on 2 August.

  

5 Dr. Peter Piot UNAIDS Executive Director giving a speech to the crowd of the First World-Wide March against the Homofobia and the Discrimination in Mexico City on 2 August. 


  

6 UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot and Dr. Jose Angel Cordova secretary of Health of Mexico prior to the start of the First World-Wide March against the Homofobia and the Discrimination in Mexico City on 2 August. 

7 Contingents of several countries of the world participated in the First World-Wide March Against the Estigma, the Discrimination and the Homofobia previous to the inauguration of AIDS 2008 in Mexico City on 2 August.

8 Members of UN Plus were present at the First World-Wide March Against the Estigma, the Discrimination and the Homofobia in Mexico City on 2 August. 

9 First World-Wide March Against the Estigma, the Discrimination and the Homofobia in Mexico City on 2 August. 

10 Colorful and peaceful, the
First World-Wide March Against the Estigma, the Discrimination and the Homofobia in Mexico City on 2 August.

11 UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot addressing to the young people who attended the musical concert Mexico Youth Force in the Museum Jose Luis Caves, previous to the inauguration of AIDS 2008 in Mexico City on 2 August. 


12 Musical concert Mexico Youth Force in the Museum Jose Luis Caves, sponsored by MTV presenting the mexican artist Julieta Venegas previous to the inauguration of AIDS 2008 in Mexico City on 2 August.

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