Conference Programme [International Conference on AIDS (16th: 2006: Toronto, Canada)]

Monday 14 August
Skills Building Workshops 10:45 - 12:15

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MOSB05
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Unlocking Untapped Potential: Tools
to Promote Self Efficacy, Enhance
Communication and Strengthen the
Skills of Sex Worker Peer Educators
Skills Building Room 5, Level 200
Monday 14 August
10:45-12:15
English
Sex worker peer educators, NGO
staff supporting peer education
programmes and programme
managers

MOSBO7
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Business Coalitions to Fight HIV/
AIDS: Skills Building and Best
Practices - an Interactive Approach
to Accelerating the Response of the
Private Sector
Skills Building Room 7, Level 200
Monday 14 August a
10:45-12:15
English
Business coalitions, private sector
enterprises, national AIDS councils,
CCMs

Participants will review and critique an innovative participatory
tool development process that aims to improve the quality
of sex worker peer education activities and increase peer
educators' self efficacy and motivation. Participants will
leave the workshop with experiences of quality improvement
strategies that they can adapt to their work area.
Facilitators: Savy Bou, Cambodia
Nith Sopha, Cambodia
Kun Reth, Cambodia

This workshop aims at providing practical input to equip
business coalitions, as well as other relevant partners, with skills
to advocate for and to advise on the planning, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS workplace programmes.
Through presentations and discussions, state-of-the-art
knowledge will be transferred on how to measure the impact
of HIV on the private sector, how to convince companies to
implement HIV/AIDS workplace programmes as well as how
to monitor, prove and communicate successes of workplace
programmes. The workshop will contribute to advancing the
quality HIV/AIDS workplace programmes and to enhancing
the sustainability of structures needed to strengthen private
sector engagement in national HIV/AIDS efforts.
Facilitator: Elizabeth Ashbourne, United States

MOSBO6
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Young Adults Living with
HIV(Relationships and Sex)
Skills Building Room 6, Level 200
Monday 14 August
10:45-12:15
English
PLWHA (ages from about 15) and
professionals who work with young

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MOSB08
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Life Skills for HIV/AIDS Prevention
Skills Building Room 8, Level 200

Date: Monday 14 August
Time: 10:45-12:15
Language: English
Target audience: Youth

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PLWHA
Relationships and sex are issues for young people!
Relationships and sex should not only be about problems
because of their status, but also about fun, love and learning.
This workshop can be a life tool on how to work out personal
issues concerning this theme.
Facilitator: Atie van der Plas, Netherlands

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is on life skills for HIV/AIDS prevention for

Facilitator: Chinyere Ijomah, Nigeria

XVI INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE * 13-18 AUGUST 2006 * TORONTO CANADA * CONFERENCE PROGRAMME