Final Program [International Conference on AIDS (14th: 2002: Barcelona, Spain)]

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SPunto de Encuentro (Community Forum)

RAUXA- The Cultural Program

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The Barcelona 2002 Community Forum - the Punto de
Encuentro - provides a pre-Conference meeting place for
communities from different regions to establish and
re-establish connections. After a morning session where Forum
delegates are welcomed to the Conference, there will be an
afternoon session during which individuals and groups will be
able to meet others in the same field, with the same interests,
to exchange ideas, lessons learned, strategies and contact
details. There is very little time to do this important networking
activity once the Conference is under way, so it is hoped that
communities will be able to take full advantage of this platform
to, at the very least, start this process in a practical way.
Skills Building Program
Connecting Partners and Approaches
Skill: a developed aptitude or ability
Building: to construct or develop according to a plan
Skills Building: developing a particular ability according to a plan
The Skills Building Program of the XIV International AIDS
Conference provides opportunities to meet, exchange and
build on our skills.
The program has been developed with the principal aim of
advancing the development of new skills or improving existing
skills through new learning partnerships, and new approaches
to problem solving. The program seeks to compose a diversity
of skills-sharing from different geographic and linguistic
regions, HIV+ communities, and professional fields.
The specific aims of the Program are:
* To provide a platform for skills-sharing
* To renew partnerships and create approaches for specific
problem solving within corresponding or different
professional fields
* To promote knowledge and experience building between
NGOs: developing new skills within communities
* To promote knowledge and experience building in science:
developing new skills between science professionals
* To generate continued technical support by establishing
human resource networks based on skills/needs partnerships.
Skills Building Workshop Content Criteria:
The selected workshops are both creative and innovative, and
comply with at least one of the following criteria:
1. New strategies for better living with HIV: information
access, treatment issues, emotional or physical changes,
spiritual needs
2. Population-specific strategies for HIV prevention and harm
reduction work
3. Gender, sexuality or age-specific issues
4. New ways of involving HIV affected communities, scientists,
health and public policy professionals in the design,
planning, implementation and evaluation of programs and
services
5. New or strategic uses of scientific research, surveillance
methods, treatment management or diagnostic tools, to
cover the needs of health care and science professionals
and community workers in different resource settings.

RAUXA is a Catalan word designating genius, audacity,
capacity of action, overflowing creativity.., a powerful
metaphor which has guided the composition of the Cultural
Program. RAUXA shows the interrelationship between a
cultural life and a world living with HIV/AIDS by:
* Offering art events as a way to understand what it is to live
with HIV/AIDS
* Providing a platform for expression to groups, individuals or
entities
* Making visible all the faces of the HIV/AIDS reality around
the world
* Incorporating the RAUXA agenda into as many parts of the
Barcelona cultural agenda as possible
Scholarships Program
The Barcelona 2002 Scholarships Program has provided full or
partial scholarships to over 1,500 Conference delegates. These
scholarship recipients were selected from a pool of over 9,ooo
applicants from around the world, according to a scoring
system and a set of criteria established by the Scholarships
Working Group - an internationally representative group of
people nominated by the Conference Organizing Committee.
The Scholarships team, made up of the Scholarships Unit and
a group of volunteers, will be present throughout
the Conference to provide support to delegates within the
program so that their Conference experience can
go as smoothly as possible. We would love to meet you and
would be happy to welcome you in the Scholarships Lounge.
Volunteers Program
The goal of the Volunteers Program is to provide the XIV
International AIDS Conference with a dedicated, committed
and well-trained team of volunteers. The program has recruited
approximately 1,250 volunteers who will offer extra hands,
minds, knowledge, skills, and provide support for the smooth
running of the Conference and help to ensure the well-being of
all the delegates attending.
The Program will provide volunteers with:
* Knowledge, skills and experience related to HIV/AIDS
* Confidence and new contacts
* Pride in doing something worthwhile
* The possibility to continue developing their social
commitment through subsequent involvement in collective
movements led by social organizations
The possibility of working within the HIV/AIDS field on an
ongoing basis
Access to the Volunteers Program will allow the local
community to increase its awareness of issues related to
HIV/AIDS. It will promote active citizenship and encourage the
expression of individual commitment through collective
movements, enhancing human potential and the quality of
daily life, thus building up human solidarity.

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