Mogae set for Mexico's AIDS 2008

The conference will draw around 25,000 participants from across the globe, including many world-renowned leaders and experts in their field.

AIDS 2008 will officially open on the evening of August 3 by Mexican President, Felipe Caldern Hinojosa. Other opening session speakers include Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos, Mexican Secretary of Health, Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Mony Pen, Asian activist and advocate for the rights of HIV-positive women around the world, Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, former President of Botswana, Festus Gontebanye Mogae and Mara Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, First Vice-President of Spain.