Bridging the Gap: Conference Workbook [International Conference on AIDS (12th: 1994: Geneva, Switzerland)]

Monday, June 29

L COMMUNITY SYMPOSIA 17.30-29.00 1 9.30-20.00

CS 3 Facing a Future: Long-term Survival with HIV
Venue: Session Hall III
Time: 17.30-20.00
This symposium aims to facilitate the empowerment of long-term survivors (and all
those living with HIV/AIDS) by examining the social and psychological aspects of
long-term survival. It will identify priority areas for action to improve the provision
of services for long-term survivors. The session will use a structured roundtable
format, with short introductory presentations and distribution of materials on key
topics.
Chairs
lan Kramer, Deputy Chair, UK Coalition of PWAs, UK
Haydee Pellegrini, Asociacion Personas Con VIH/SIDA, Argentina
Speakers
* Managing life with HIV as a chronic condition
Arjen Broekhuizen, Executive Director, EA TG, The Netherlands
* Multiple loss and bereavement
Mercy Makhlamele, NA WP Kwazulu, South Africa
* Biological status: survivors vs non-progressors, long-term HIV vs AIDS
Jonathan Grimshaw, Director of Health Promotion, The Terrence Higgins Trust, UK
* Coping and support needs: does it get easier or harder with time?
Jairo Pedraza, GNP+ North America, USA
* Lifestyle choices: nutrition, spiritual, social networks
Xevi Garcia Floris, Plataforma NA TC and ACTUA, Spain
* To work or not to work?
Phillipa Lawson, Development Worker, ICW, UK
CS 4 Commercial Sex and Health in the Second
Decade of HIV
Venue: Session Hall IV
Time: 17.30-20.00
Roundtable approach, with a panel of people speaking for five minutes each,
followed by small group discussion on lessons to be learnt, and strategies for the
future.

CS 5 The Critical Need for Nutritional Interventions in
HIV/AIDS
Venue: Session Hall VI
Time: 17.30-20.00
Interactive roundtable with panel of speakers, followed by general discussion.
Chairs
Keith Alcorn, National AIDS Manual, UK
Maguette Ndiaye, BASICS/USAID, Senegal
Speakers
* Nutrition in HIV
Lark Lands, USA
* Instituting nutrition programmes despite poverty (north perspective
Ron Simmons, Us Helping Us, Inc.
* Instituting nutrition programmes despite poverty (south perspective
Loretta Wong, AIDS Concern, Hong Kong, China
* Nutrition and long-term survival
David Chipanta, President, Network of Zambian PLWHA, Zambia
* Developing nutrition and HIV educational materials
Rick Stephens, NAPWA South Africa, South Africa
* Nutritional outreach training programmes for PWAs and their caregivers
Lynde Francis, Director, The Center, Zimbabwe
* Developing home care training materials addressing nutrition issues
Rafael Mazin, Regional Advisor on HIV/AIDS and STDs, Pan American Health
Organization
* Overcoming political realities to get what you need
George Carter, Director, Treatment Information Development, DAAIR, USA uilding
Workshops

Chairs
Smarajit Jana, STD/HIV Intervention Programme, Calcutta, India
NormaJean Almodovar, Chair, ISWFACE, USA
Speakers
* What do we know about the place of commercial sex in local epidemics and the
global pandemic?
Werasit Sittitrai, Associate Director, Department of Policy, Strategy and Research,
UNAIDS
* Introducing a new programme
Christopher Castle, Horizons Project, Population Council, USA
* Competing views about how to measure successes and failures of sex worker
programmes and policies
Carol Jenkins, Head, Social and Behavioural Sciences Programme,
ICDDRB, Bangladesh
* Starting out: identifying the obstacles and finding the right strategies
to overcome them
Lucy Platt, AIDS Infoshare, Russia
* Anatomy of a targeted intervention
Camille Cabral, PASST, France
* Work, pleasure, money, sex, identity, survival, gender and otherthings
Julian Hows, UK Coalition of People with HIV, UK
* Empowerment is more than a word (the health promotion/politics interface in
practice)
Rekha Mitra, Executive Director, USHA Multipurpose Cooperative Society, Calcutta,
India
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