2010: A YEAR NOT TO FORGET. THE UNIVERSAL ACCESS GOALS STILL NEED TO BE MET.

LACCASO promotes sattelite session at XVIII International AIDS Conference, Vienna 2010:
Political and economical challenges for achieving the Universal Access goals.

Funding and Policy are discussions that need to be addressed in an integrated way, touching upon questions such as the accountability of all political actors involved in the AIDS response worldwide. This session will address the outstanding need for making sure that the available resources for fighting AIDS goes to effective programs and policies, reaching thouse who are in need, through better coordination and integration of HIV and other key policies such as human rights and development.

The panelists for the session are: Anand Grover (UN Rapporteur, India), Cristina Pimenta (ABIA, Brazil), Jantine Jacobi (UNAIDS, Netherlands) Joachim Rüppel (Medical Mission Institute, Germany), Paula Akugizibwe (ARASA, South Africa), and Alessandra Nilo (Gestos/LACCASO, Brazil).

22 July, 2010, at Session Room 4 (SR4). 6:30PM to 8:30PM.



PREVENTION TREATMENT ACCESS PROJECT (PTAP):
Community Based Advocacy and Networking to Scale up HIV Prevention in an Era of Expanded Treatment
A concept paper about PTAP: 1) An Introduction to HIV Prevention in an Era of Expanded Treatment: What are the Opportunities and Risks?. 2) Examples of Successful Integration of Prevention and Treatment. 3) Overview of the Project. Read more about the concept paper
"Building Bridges of Hope: Increasing the media role in HIV prevention and treatment". Sensitization workshop. Belize, August 10-12, 2007. Building bridges of hope (PDF, 387 kb) / The Community based Advocacy and Networking to Scale – up HIV Prevention in an Era of Expanded Treatment, The PTAP. (PDF, 525 kb) / National Response to HIV & AIDS. Key Priority Areas. (PDF, 34 kb) / Who Internacional Response to HIV (PDF, 94 kb) / Treatment and Care. National Aids Programme. Ministry of Health, Belize (PDF, 179 kb) / Life at Ground Zero (PDF, 191 kb)

RED SERIES OF LACCASO:
Training Manual for Community Response to Stigma and Discrimination Related to HIV/AIDS
Advocacy Manual. A Practical Guide for Organizations of the Civil Society
HIV/AIDS Policy Analysis and Advocacy Facilitator`s Manual and Training Module
This manuals are part of the products obtained as a result of the development of the “ Community - Based Advocacy and Networking to Scale Up HIV Prevention in an Era of Expanded Treatment Project”, coordinated by LACCASO in Belize and Jamaica, starting in 2004, under the auspices of: ICASO, Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation, GSK, DANIBA (Denmark) and CIDA (Canada).

LACCASO (Consejo Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Organizaciones No Gubernamentales con Servicio en VIH/SIDA) es el Secretariado Regional de ICASO/ International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO),
con sede en Toronto, Canadá.
Secretariado Regional:
GESTOS, Soropositividade, Comunicaçao e Gênero, de Recife
(Pernambuco-Brasil)
E-mail:alessandra.nilo@gestospe.org.br
Sitio web: http://www.gestospe.org.br/web/inicio/
Contacto: Alessandra Nilo

ICASO también cuenta con los siguientes secretariados regionales:
AFRICASO, APCASO (Asia y Pacifico) y NACASO (Norteamérica).