Launching United Nations Global Media Initiative on HIV/AIDS

Launching United Nations Global Media Initiative on HIV/AIDS

15 January 2004

The launch of the United Nations Global Media HIV/AIDS Initiative was held at UN Headquarters. Left to right, first row: Mark Byford, Deputy Director General of BBC, Mel Karmazin, President and COO of Viacom Inc., Shashi Tharoor, Under Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, Drew Altman, President and CEO of Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Bill Gates, Co-founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Corporation, Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General, Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, Richard Holbrooke, President and CEO of Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Robert Johnson, Founder and CEO of Black Entertainment Television, and Zhao Hua Yong, President of China Central Television.Left to right, second row: Surya Paloh, President of Metro TV, Taiwo Allimi, Chairman of Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria, and Director General of Voice of Nigeria, Judith McHale, President and COO of Discovery Communications, Inc., Serge Adda, President and Director General of TV5, Jeffrey L. Bewkes, Chairman of Entertainment and Networks Groups of Time Warner Inc., Jack Valenti, President and CEO of Motion Picture Association of America, Hidetoshi Fujisawa, Director-General of Bureau for America of NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Robert T. Coonrod, President and CEO of Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Alexander Dybal, CEO and Chairman of Gazprom-Media, and Liu Zheng Zhu, Chief of United Nations Bureau of China Central Television. Left to right, third row: Bill Roedy, President of MTV Networks International, Victor Pinchuk, Owner of International Commercial Television, Liu Changle, Chairman and CEO of Phoenix Satellite Television Co. Ltd., Peter Matlare, Group Chief Executive of South African Broadcasting Corporation, Pierre El-Daher, Chairman and CEO of Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, Ray Rodriguez, President and COO of Univision, Amauri Soares, CEO of Globo International, Juan J. Buhigas, Director of International and Corporate Affairs of Radiotelevisión Española, and K. S. Sarma, CEO of Prasar Bharati Broadcasting Corporation.

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United Nations, UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

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