david munar president of the aids foundation in chicago. and the co chair will moderate the discussion that will be looking at the history of the international aids conferences and what we can expect as we look forward. so we'll continue that conversation next week. and i hope you can all join us. that will be web cast live at midday. and we expect a strong turnout here as well. and i want to thank everyone who is joining us online. we have 100 persons joining us online for this event today. and i want to welcome them. and we're very fortunate also that c-span 3 has chosen to come and be with us today. and we're grateful for that. so please join me in introducing our guest of honor, dr. thomas frieden. >>> thanks very much, steven. thanks to everyone at csis for really excellent cutting-edge work that you've done in global health on a wide variety of issues. and also i want to thank all of the nongovernmental organizations and fakinith-base organizations and individual advocates who have helped us get to where we are today in hiv. we're all

president of the international aids society and international co-chair of the aids 2012 effort, david munar, president and ceo of the aids foundation of chicago, and diane havlier will moderate that discussion that will be looking at the history of the international aids conferences and what we can expect as we look forward. so we'll continue that conversation next week, and i hope you can all join us. that will be webcast live at midday, and we expect a strong turnout here as well. and i want to thank everyone who is joining us online. we have 100 persons joining us online for this event today, and i want to welcome them. and we've, we're very fortunate, also, that c-span3 has chosen to come and be with us, we're very grateful for that. so, please, join me in welcoming our guest of honor, dr. thomas frieden. [applause] >> thanks very much, stephen. thanks to everyone at csis for really excellent, cutting-edge work that you've done in global health on a wide variety of issues. and also i want to thank all of the nongovernmental organizations and faith-based organizations and individual advo