Secretary of State Hillary Clinton To Unveil The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation

On Thursday November 29, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will commemorate World AIDS Day 2012 and unveil the PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation that provides a roadmap for how the U.S. government will work to help achieve an AIDS-free generation. Secretary Clinton will be joined by Ambassador Eric P. Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. The event will take place at 10:30 am in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the Department of State.

Secretary Clinton will be joined by:

Ambassador Eric P. Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
Michel Sidibe, UNAIDS Executive Director
Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission
Florence Ngobeni-Allen, Ambassador for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

This event is open to the press and will be streamed live at www.state.gov.

Pre-set for video cameras 9:45 a.m. from the 23^rd Street Entrance Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 10:15 a.m. from the 23^rd Street Entrance Lobby.

For media inquiries contact Anjana Padmanabhan in the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator at padmanabhana@state.gov. For updates, follow PEPFAR on Twitter @PEPFAR. Follow the conversation on Twitter under the hashtags: #PEPFARBlueprint; #WAD12; #SecClinton.

For more information on PEPFAR visit: www.pepfar.gov

Media representatives may attend this event upon presentation of one of the following: (1) A U.S. Government-issued identification card (Department of State, White House, Congress, Department of Defense or Foreign Press Center), (2) a media-issued photo identification card, or (3) a letter from their employer on letterhead verifying their employment as a journalist, accompanied by an official photo identification card (driver's license, passport).