ICAAP 2005
The 7th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) was held in Kobe, Japan from July 1 to 5.
Over the course of the Congress the Alliance shared experiences and insights from the Frontiers Prevention Project in India and Cambodia at a series of poster, oral and skills building sessions.
The successes, learnings and challenges of the Alliance’s Frontiers Prevention Project were discussed in nine posters sessions, two oral presentations and at two skills building workshops during ICAAP.
Details of the sessions are set out below or you can download a calendar of Alliance events at ICAAP.
The Alliance also had an exhibition booth at ICAAP where more information on our work, including copies of our resources, was available.
More information on the Frontiers Prevention Project is available on this website or by contacting the Project’s Global Policy Adviser Joseph O’Reilly via email.
Saturday July 2
Oral Presentation
Scaling-up HIV prevention, care and support & mitigating the impact of AIDS through micro-credit groups
Time: 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Posters
Using HIV interventions as a tool to understand the sexual dimensions of poverty
Targeting children in care and support programmes: a programme experience
Integrating Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV strategies in the Home and Community based care and support programme in India
Integrating vulnerability reduction, risk reduction and impact mitigation: The Warangal Model
This poster will provide an overview of the Frontiers Prevention Project’s development and implementation of a comprehensive range of HIV prevention focussed initiatives in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Community Led Information, Education and Communication materials development – Best Practice from the Frontiers Prevention Program
This poster will explore the results of a five day workshop aimed at facilitating the peer led production of educational resources on HIV/AIDS, stigma and discrimination, gender and sexuality. The methodology gives representatives of affected communities the opportunity to translate their experiential knowledge into messages that can be used for HIV prevention education.
Strategy for Community Mobilization, Empowerment and Structural Interventions – Experience from the Frontiers Prevention Project
Frontiers is premised on the principle that community mobilization, empowerment and the creation of enabling environments are essential prerequisites for reducing HIV risk. This poster will show how the project has helped build the capacity of key populations to influence their environment with a view to reducing their vulnerability to the epidemic.
- Posters will be on display in the poster hall from 9am until 6pm.
- Authors will be presenting on their poster in the hall from 12.30 until 2.30pm.
Sunday July 3
Symposia
The Three Ones in Action
Partners engaged in the global, national and local response to AIDS have agreed on the “Three Ones”—one national AIDS framework, one national AIDS authority and one system for monitoring and evaluation—as guiding principles for improving the country-level response.
This workshop is designed to promote the operationalization of the Three Ones in countries across Asia.
Alliance India's Executive Director Balwant Singh will be speaking.
Time: 11.00 am - 12.30 pm
Venue : Conference Room, International Conference Centre
Oral Presentations
Sex Worker Network and Solidarity Building under the Frontiers Prevention Program in Andhra Pradesh, India
The Frontiers Prevention Project has demonstrated that the development of social capital and community mobilization make an important contribution to reducing vulnerability to HIV.
This presentation will provide an overview of efforts in Andhra Pradesh, India to facilitate the establishment of a sex-workers network which is the principal means through which HIV prevention interventions among this high risk group are now being implemented. The process has resulted in the growth of sex worker leadership in response to the challenge of HIV including involvement in the management of some 22 newly established STI clinics and drop in centres.
Time: 4.30 – 6.00pm
Session Title: Leadership: Making an Impact
Success Story: Community led rapid response under the Frontiers Prevention Project in the temple town of Tirupathi, in Andhra Pradesh, India
This presentation will highlight the value of community-centric programming as experienced in the implementation of Frontiers in the town of Tirupathi, including community led program planning and design, STI service appraisal and design and the emergence of drop-in-centres as nuclei for community mobilization and solidarity building.
Time: 4.30 – 6.00pm
Session Title: Prevention Strategy and Planning Methods
Skills Building Workshop
How to create an enabling environment: learning from each other
This practical workshop will examine what it takes to build social, cultural, political and legal structures which enable HIV prevention, treatment and care. Topics include developing coordinated and funded community responses, working with governments, achieving social and legal reform, and building partnerships. Presented by ACON (Australia), International HIV/AIDS Alliance & The Lawyers Collective (India).
Time: 14.30 – 18.00
Room Number: C 505 - 5th Floor, International Conference Centre Kobe.
Posters
MSM networking for advocacy
This poster will detail emerging work with men who have sex with men in Cambodia, including peer outreach, condom promotion and distribution, and IEC development. The poster will show how the work is contributing to successful advocacy, including by increasing the visibility of MSM issues with local health authorities and to the decision by National Centre for HIV/AIDS and Dermatology’s to include MSM as a vulnerable population in the national AIDS programs plans.
Promoting the involvement of key populations in the response to HIV/AIDS in Cambodia
This poster will examine efforts to involve representatives of key populations in HIV prevention programming in India, including the collaborative design and execution of Participatory Site Assessments.
Impact of population mobility on HIV/AIDS in key towns in Karimnagar district, Andhra Pradesh, India
This poster provides some early evidence (through a location specific operational research project) of the impact that migration and mobility has on the HIV epidemic. It includes analysis of and co-relation between mobility patterns and sexual behaviour.
Intervention with sex workers, street based men who have sex with men in Jagitial and Metpalli. A success story of the rights based approach under the Frontiers Prevention Project (FPP) in Andhra Pradesh, India
This poster will detail the process of community mobilization and organisation among street based sex workers initiated by the Alliance in partnership with local NGO, REACH in Jagitial and Metpalli, India.
Frontiers Prevention Project and AVAHAN in Andhra Pradesh (AP) - Towards a new generation focused prevention program
This poster will provide an overview of FPP’s various elements in India, including STI services, BCC and condom programming, together with the project’s efforts to mobilise communities, build social capital building, develop leadership, and provide training and skills development. It will also highlight the challenge of providing appropriate HIV related care & treatment.
- Posters will be on display in the poster hall from 9am until 6pm.
- Authors will be presenting on their poster in the hall from 12.30 until 2.30pm.
Monday July 4
Renewing Our Voice: The Code of Good Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV/AIDS
This session will provide an overview of the Code, including its development, what's in it, why it's important, how your organization can sign up to it, and how it can be used.
Chaired by Dr Nafis Sadik, the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific and Trustee of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
This session is being organised by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in association with IPPF and ICASO.
Time: 8.00-9.00 am
Ruby Room
Portopia Hotel, 10-1, 6 Chome Minatojima, Nakamchi, Chuo-ku
5 mins from the Kobe International Conference Centre
Skills Building Workshop
A guide to setting up sexual health clinical services in resource poor settings
The manual “Setting up and managing Sexual Health Clinical Services in Resource Poor Settings” which was developed in Andhra Pradesh, India as an activity of the Frontiers Prevention Project will be used to help build the skills of participants at this workshop.
The development of the manual was a participatory process that involved key populations, government and private sector STI specialists and NGO staff. The process resulted in the establishment of STI clinical services across 26 sites in 14 districts of Andhra Pradesh. In this workshop participatory activities will help participants receive concrete guidelines and tools on how to establish key population friendly STI services.
The workshop will be facilitated by local and international STI specialists from the Alliance.
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Room Number: C 503/504 - 5th Floor, International Conference Centre Kobe
Posters
Community led STI management and monitoring. Best practices from Frontiers Prevention Project, Andhra Pradesh, India
This poster will explore key features associated with developing accessible, affordable, user friendly and gender sensitive STI clinical services in the context of the Frontiers Project in India.
- Posters will be on display in the poster hall from 9am until 6pm.
- Authors will be presenting on their poster in the hall from 12.30 until 2.30pm.
