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IEPFPD Panel Discussion on HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Brussels, Belgium, 17 May 2001

The IEPFPD held a parliamentary panel discussion on the effects of HIV/AIDS on development in Sub-Saharan Africa during the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, on 17 May 2001 in Brussels.  The IEPFPD aimed to focus attention on the damage of HIV/AIDS to many countries' development efforts. Speakers included Marjatta Vehkaoja, Member of Parliament of Finland and Chair of the Inter-European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development,  Moustapha Ka, Senegalese Member of Parliament (MP), President of the Forum of Afro-Arab Parliamentarians on Population and Development, Youssouf Sangaré, Burkina Faso MP; and Elisabeth Hlavac, Austrian MP as well as Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director, UNFPA; Eddy Boutmans, Secretary of State for Development Cooperation, Belgium; Lieve Fransen of the European Commission; Miss Universe 1999 Mpule Kwelagobe, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for Botswana and Goedele Liekens, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for Belgium and popular Belgian television presenter.