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

Skills Building Workshops

Thursday luly ii

Raising Funds and Mobilizing Resources
B63 1for HIV/AIDS Work
Venue: Room 5:6A
Time: 10o:3o - 13:30
Language: Spanish
Target Audience: National NGOs and CBOs, community
leaders, NGO support providers, technical
support consultants
The workshop is about planning fundraising work in a
systematic and strategic way to avoid wasted time and
resources and avoid being donor-led. Participants will share
experiences and ideas about fundraising with co-facilitators
who work for NGOs based in developing countries, and will
develop practical fundraising skills.
Facilitators: A Trossero, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, United
Kingdom; A Luna, Red Mexicana de Personas que Viven con
VIH/SIDA, Mexico; M Zambrano, Corporacidn Kimirina, Ecuador
International AIDS Society/SHARE Training Workshop
SB641 on HIV Antiretroviral Therapy
Venue: Room 5:6B
Time: lo:3o - 17:3o (A lunch break is scheduled
into the workshop.)
Language: English
Target Audience: Healthcare workers involved in HIV care in
developing countries (basic clinical
knowledge of HIV manifestations is required,
medical degree is not required), public
health workers
The topics covered in this workshop span from basic science,
epidemiology and prevention, health care planning and
management, to clinical issues, social response and education.
The skills acquired include knowledge of: basic clinical
manifestations of HIV infection, pathogenesis of HIV/AIDS,
principles of ARV therapy, ARV guidelines for resource limited
settings, MTCT prevention, clinical management of ARV
toxicities, management of Ols.
Facilitators: S Vella, (lAS), through its educational program
"SHARE", Italy; D Havlir, United States; C Giaquinto, Italy;
P Cahn, Argentina; E Katabira, Uganda; K Ruxrungthan,
Thailand
Homecoming: Exploring Your Own Emotional
SB65] and Spiritual Response to HIV
Venue: Room 5:8
Time: 1o:3o - 17:3o (A lunch break is scheduled
into the workshop.)
Language: English
Target Audience: Caregivers, doctors, nurses, social workers,
therapists, palliative caregivers, pastoral
counselors
In this workshop we will review the life events that help you
relate to the world around you, exploring natural human
emotional responses and how these may have become
distorted and repressed; the effect of this upon physical,
psychosocial and spiritual well being. We will explore issues of
stress management, self-care and quality of life.
Facilitators: R Griffin, Vuurvlinder Foundation, Netherlands;
I Doncel, Volver a Casa, Spain

[ SB66 Setting Up Self-Help Groups for HIV Positive Women
Venue: Room 2C
Time: 13:oo00- 15:00oo
Language: French
Target Audience: HIV positive women who want to set up a
self-help group
In this workshop, knowledge and skills will be gained from
HIV+ women facilitators from different parts of the world who
have experience in setting up self-help groups in diverse
settings. Recommendations will be made regarding further
training skills like fundraising, report writing, etc. Women will
leave the workshop with information that will enable them to
start self-help groups in their own countries.
Facilitators: M Somda, International Community of Women
Living with HIV/AIDS, Burkina Faso; I Defeu, ICW, France
Caring for Others, Caring for Me: Rethinking the
SB67 IPersonal Focus around HIV Care and Treatment
Venue: Room 2A
Time: 14:3o - 17:3o
Language: Spanish
Target Audience: Social workers, counselors, peer counselors,
people who work with partners or family
members of PLWHAs, HIV+ educators
This workshop looks at the context around the issues of
personal care and the care of others in the process of staying
on treatment. Participants will explore the benefits of "selfcare" and the positive effects of supporting others. This
concept is very useful to explore in couples who live with HIV,
discordant couples, persons who live alone or who have
remote support.Through the use of candies that take the place
of medicines, together with prescriptions that are similar to
those used for anti-retroviral treatment we will create an
environment with multiple possibilities around the use of
treatment.
Facilitators: 0 Sarmiento, Fundaci6n en Accidn; R Sandoval,
INdetectable, Colombia
How to Select, Evaluate and Maintain the Correct
CD4 T-cell Counting Method for Your HIV/AIDS
B68 Treatment Clinic
Venue: Room 2B
Time: 14:3o - 17:3o
Language: English
Target Audience: Clinical laboratory scientists, infectious
disease physicians, laboratory managers
The workshop will empower scientists to make the most
appropriate method selection and to facilitate regional skills
building workshops using their newly acquired tools. It is
designed as an interactive workshop with modular
components. A short video segment will rapidly initiate and
facilitate interactive participation related to the operation of an
HIV serology laboratory facility. The enactment module(s) will
provide life-like scenarios to deal with critical and realistic
decision-making situations. There will be opportunities for
"reverse role playing".
Facilitators: F Mandy, Health Canada; M Bergeron, Canada;
E Ferndndez-Repollet, Puerto Rico; T Rinke de Wit

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