The William Dennis Lecture will take place on Thursday, June 21 at 5:00 pm at the Main Medical Lecture Theatre located at the University Hospital of the West Indies. Professor Peter Figueroa, Chief, Epidemiology and AIDS at the Ministry of Health will deliver the Lecture entitled The HIV Vaccine, Why it is so Important?

Professor Celia Christie of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Child Health, UWI, Mona will also make a presentation on An Update on Paediatric and Perinatal HIV in Jamaica. Professor Emeritus Edward Baugh will also read from his poems.

For further information, please contact Professor Newton Duncan, Professor of Paediatric Surgery and Supervisor, Paediatric Surgical Training, UWI, Mona at 927-1270

The University community and the public are invited to attend.