The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Terry Fleischer
Deputy Director of the Bioethics Center at the University of Cape Town

"Democracy under challenge in the rainbow nation:
South Africa's HIV/AIDS pandemic"

Friday, 28th September, 2007 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 6th September to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only
 

Terry Fleischer began his practice of law at the Attorney General’s office in Juneau, Alaska in 1964. In 1995, after serving for over 25 years as a partner in the law firm of Guess and Rudd, Anchorage, he embarked on a new career in bioethics. He received his post-graduate degree in bioethics and law at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 1997, and for two years served as a fellow and senior fellow at the MacLean Center for Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. Since 1999 Terry has been Deputy Director of the Bioethics Centre and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine and the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His current research focuses on the impact of South Africa’s HIV/AIDS pandemic on the country’s public health sector. He is an ordained deacon at the St George’s cathedral in Cape Town with a ministry to terminally ill and dying.