Miami, Florida ---- Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, senior member of the Florida Congressional Delegation, will take part TOMORROW, Wednesday March 19^th in the “2008 South Florida Legislator Roundtable on AIDS” at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Miller School of Medicine. Ros-Lehtinen will also be the event’s Keynote Speaker discussing what the federal government is doing regarding HIV/AIDS and the steps that need to be taken to stop its spread and better treat those afflicted.

The purpose of the “2008 South Florida Legislator Roundtable on AIDS” is to better educate the South Florida Congressional Delegation on the facts of Miami-Dade County regarding HIV/AIDS as the worst region in the country as far as the rate of infections per 1000 people.

Ros-Lehtinen, who serves as Ranking Republican Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, hosted a public meeting this past Sunday with Christopher Bates, Acting Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, and Ambassador Mark R. Dybul, United States Global AIDS Coordinator, to discuss America's efforts to combat HIV/AIDS at home and abroad. The Congresswoman is a leading force regarding AIDS legislation in the House.

WHO: Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, other elected officials from South Florida, Florida and Miami-Dade Departments of Health, University of Miami, South Florida AIDS Network and other South Florida AIDS organizations.

WHEN:            TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY MARCH 19, 2008 FROM 10:00 AM THROUGH 12 NOON.

WHERE:          UM/Jackson’s Miller School of Medicine, Diagnosis Treatment Center, Conference Room 270, located at Northeast corner of 19 Street and 12 Avenue, Miami.

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