PROGRAMME
MEETING 1: 'Do
Big Plans Help Big Numbers? Lessons and Challenges in HIV/AIDS'
Joint meeting with the International
HIV/AIDS Alliance
Wednesday 7th June 2006, 11.30AM - 3.00PM at ODI
Speakers (11.30am-1.00pm):
- Charlie Gilks, Director & Co-ordinator, Treatment
& Prevention Scale-up Unit, Department of HIV/AIDS,
World Health Organisation (WHO)
- Dr Caroline Ryan, Senior Technical Adviser for
Prevention & Technical Team Leader, President's Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
- Ini Huijts, Programme Management Adviser, Three
Ones Team, Global Initiatives Division, UNAIDS
- Michel Sidibe, Director of Country & Regional
Support, UNAIDS
Speakers (1.30-3.00pm):
- Fareed Abdullah, former Deputy Director General
in the Western Cape Department of Health and Head of the
AIDS Programme
- Sam Phiri, Executive Director, The Lighthouse Trust,
Malawi
- Matt Boxshall, Management Adviser, The Lighthouse
Trust, Malawi
- Susie McLean, Senior Policy Adviser,
Care & Impact Mitigation Team, International HIV/AIDS
Alliance
MEETING 2: 'HIV/AIDS
Among Conflict-Affected and Displaced Populations: Dispelling
Myths and Taking Action'
Joint meeting with UNHCR
Wednesday 14th June, 12.30 - 2.00PM at ODI
Speakers:
- Paul Spiegel, Senior HIV Technical Advisor &
Global Coordinator, HIV Unit, UNHCR
- Dieudonne Yiweza, Senior HIV Regional Coordinator,
Central Africa, HIV Unit, UNHCR
Discussant: Tom Ellman, Medecins Sans Frontier,
UK
Chair: David Booth, ODI
MEETING 3: 'The
Road to Universal Access: Scaling Up Paediatric Treatment'
Joint meeting with UNICEF
Monday 24th July, 10.30AM - 12.00PM at ODI
Speakers:
- Dr Chewe Luo, Senior Programme Adviser, UNICEF -
'Optimising opportunities for scaling up HIV interventions
for children'
- Kate Harrison, Senior Technical Adviser, Children,
International HIV/AIDS Alliance - 'Mobilising &
supporting families & communities for paediatric treatment
& care'
- Dr Siobhan Crowley, Department of HIV/AIDS, World
Health Organisation (WHO)
Chair: Caroline Harper, Research Fellow, ODI
MEETING 4: 'The
Role of Livelihoods, Food & Nutrition in the Response
to HIV/AIDS'
Wednesday 2nd August, 1.00-2.30PM at ODI
Speakers:
- Paluku Bahwere, Community Therapeutic Care (CTC)
Adviser, Valid International - 'Possible benefits of
community based nutrition care to malnourished adults with
AIDS in settings with low VCT uptake'
- Claire de Menezes, Health & Nutrition Adviser,
Action Against Hunger UK - 'HIV/AIDS & nutrition
programming in the SCF international network'
- Dr. Fiona Samuels, Research Fellow, ODI - 'The
effects of HIV/AIDS on livelihoods: SOme findings from a longitudinal
study in Zambia 1993-2005'
Chair: Paul Harvey, Research Fellow, ODI
MEETING 5: 'The
Role of the Private Sector in the HIV/AIDS Response'
Tuesday 10th October, 5.00–7.30PM at
ODI, followed by a drinks reception
Speakers:
- Dr. Jonathon Simon, Director, Center for International
Health and Development, Boston University.
Presentation: 'The Private Sector and HIV/AIDS
in Africa: Taking Stock of Six Years of Applied Research'.
- Dr. Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Vice President,
External Affairs, Europe, Middle East, Africa & Canada,
Merck & Co., Inc. Presentation: ‘AIDS is Everybody's Business’:
The Role of Partnerships in Scaling Up the Response to HIV/AIDS'.
- Dr. Brian A Brink, Senior Vice President: Health,
Anglo American South Africa.
Presentation: TBC
Discussant: Professor Richard
Feachem, Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Chair: Dr. Fiona Samuels, Research Fellow,
ODI
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