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

Tuesday, June 30

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CS 8 Community Development and the Private Sector:
Are they Compatible Partners?
Venue: Session Hall III
Time: 17.30-20.00
Roundtable discussion with leaders in the business sector who are involved in
AIDS-related activities, involving initial statements by panel members, moderated
discussion between participants, and discussion with the audience.
Chairs
Jose Llados, Manager, Donor and Corporate Relations, UNAIDS
Marina Mahathir, President, Malaysian AIDS Council, Malaysia
Speakers
* Overview and Economic Situation
Mead Over, Senior Economist, Policy Research Department World Bank
* Tools for partnership
Ros Tennyson, Director, Learning and Leadership Programmes, Associate Director,
Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, UK
* Private sector and community partnerships in South Africa
Sesel Hartshorne, Rotary, Small Business Managing Director, South Africa
* Popular culture, advertising and education
Philippe Nordman, Chairman, Sid'Aide, Geneva
* Workplace policies and community, corporate initiatives in Latin America
Sergio Mario Villares, Chief Executive Officer, Industries Villares S.A. (TBD), Brazil
* Involving the business sector in Southeast Asia
Tony Pramalatura, Group Marketing Controller, Thailand Business Coalition on
AIDS, Thailand
* Internet and mobilisation related to HIV
Catherine Taylor, Group Marketing Controller, London International, UK
* The role of unions in community development and HIV
Trevor Sharp, Building Trades Group Drug and Alcohol Committee, Australia
CS 9 Storytelling: Personal Tales of People Living
with HIV/AIDS
Venue: Session Hall IV
Time: 17.30-20.00
Panel speaking about their personal experiences and/or the active role of such
stories in influencing others, followed by facilitated discussion on the lessons to be
learnt from such approaches.
Chairs/Facilitators
Kim Blankenship, Yale AIDS Program, USA
Martina Clark, NGO Liaison Officer, UNAIDS
Speakers
* Developing memory books to leave for children
Nabaggala Scovia Kasolo, Uganda
* Coping as an elite in the workplace
Richard Constant Okou, Uganda
* Working for and with the community
Pimjai Internoon, Thailand
* PWA mothers coping with family issues in an urban environment
Hortencia Donaldson, The Blooming Society, USA
* Your life story by someone else: growing up with HIV in the 90s
Carsten Schatz, POSITIVe. V. National Network of PWAs, Germany
* Influence of positive people going public on HIV bolicy and prevention
Susan Paxton, Asia Pacific Network PLWHA, Australia

CS 10 Culture: Art and Artists Responding to AIDS
Venue: Session Hall VI
Time: 17.30-20.00
Interactive roundtable, with four short performances, followed by four speakers
and then general discussion.
Chairs
Dennis Altman School of Politics, La Trobe University Australia
Kate Shindle, 1998 Miss America, USA
Performers
Puppets Against AIDS, South Africa
DramAidE, South Africa
Shrti Dance, Bangladesh
Komol Gandhar, India
Speakers
* Art evolving with an epidemic
Frank Wagner, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Germany
* RAPSO: singing youth as educators
Godfrey Sealy, Trinidad
* Drama and prevention
Lynn Dalrymple, South Africa
* Cultural traditions and AIDS
Jovesa Speith, Programme Manager, AIDS Task Force ofFiji
* The use of theatre in social education
Gordon Bilbrough, Manager, Puppets Against AIDS, South Africa

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