Participants: Gregg Alton, GILEAD Sciences Executive Vice President Corporate and Medical Affairs; Paul De Lay, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director, Programme; Carlo Federico Perno, Full professor of Virology at Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata; Luis Gomes Sambo, WHO Regional Director for Africa. Greeting speech by Elisabetta Belloni, Director General of the Italian Development Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Introduced by Alberto Piatti, General Secretary of AVSI Foundation.