Today was a significant day for dignitaries to visit the Youth Pavilion. With so many influential people on the list, hopefully youth can gain significant ground on the fight against HIV and AIDS.

Some of the highlights of the past two days are:

Stephen Lewis - Stephen Lewis Foundation
William Blair- Toronto Chief of Police
Tony Clement - Federal Health Minister of Canada
Dr Anders Nordström - Acting Director General of WHO
Mark Richmond - UNESCO Global Coordinator for HIV/AIDS


Yesterday, there were also some very influential people such as:

Dr. Peter Piot - Executive Director and Under-Secretary General of UNAIDS
Mark Wainberg - Co-Chair of the XVI International AIDS Conference
Matilde Maddaleno - Regional Advisor Adolescent Health, WHO
Mariam Claeson - Coordinator of South Asia, World Bank


To check out the commitments themselves, take a look over here!

The final post of the day with the celebs who drop by plus something funny that happened. Will try to post one each day!


We had what I would call three "celebrities" today at the youth hub.

First we had Mayor David Miller, who was actually really nice and said some great things about TIG (see my other post)

Then we had Bill Gates swoon by with his entourage of people (no less than 10) with his wife Melinda who also signed an Adult-Youth Commitment

And finally we had Mary Robinson the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights who was also super cool and spoke with us for quite a while.



Funny moment of the day: When a woman tried to plug her USB key into a monitor port on the computer. It took me a while before I could figure out what the problem was -- we both seemed equally confused.

Stories from youth who have gone to Malawi, Burkino Faso and Botswana with the World University Services of Canada.

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