Alliance events at the XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, August 2006
The Alliance is organising and participating in a number of events at this year’s International AIDS Conference in Toronto – symposiums, satellites, poster exhibitions and discussions, skills building workshops, oral presentations and abstracts, and panel sessions and discussions.
Times and locations of the sessions are listed below.
In addition, we welcome you to visit us at our booth (number 481) in the exhibition hall, where, amongst other things, we will be distributing CD-ROMs of our publications.
We look forward to seeing you there!
(Please note that session times and locations may change. We will update this page as we become aware of any changes)
Thursday 10 August
Symposium: MSM & HIV: Advancing a global agenda for gay men and other men who have sex with men
The Alliance's Joseph O’Reilly and Shaun Mellors will be participating. (See www.msm-aids2006.org for more information). Time: Thursday 10 August, 13:00-17:30, Friday 11 August, 09:00-18:30. Location: Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre Hotel, 525 Bay Street, Toronto.
Friday 11 August
Symposium (registration now closed): Envisioning the future: an international symposium on children affected by AIDS
Presented by The Teresa Group and Sick Kids Hospital for Sick Children. Keynote speaker: Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy on AIDS in Africa. The Alliance's Kate Harrison will be moderating the panel session on education. Time: Friday 11 August, 09:00-17:30, Saturday 12 August, 09:00-17:30. Location: MaRS Centre, 101 College Street.
Saturday 12 August
Symposium: Making the connection: vulnerable populations, HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health and rights conference
The Alliance's Shaun Mellors is co-facilitating. Time: 09:00-15:00 (08:30 for coffee). Location: Forest Hill Ballroom, Marriott Hotel, 90 Bloor Street East, Toronto.
Symposium: How to reduce the stigma of AIDS, methods, tools and measurement: latest findings from the field
ICRW, GlaxoSmithKline’s Positive Action, Elton John AIDS Foundation. The Alliance's executive director Alvaro Bermejo will be speaking, and Sue Clay and Chipo Chiiya co-facilitating. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Fairmont Royal York Hotel, 100 Front Street West.
Sunday 13 August
Satellite: Shifting the paradigm to help the most children: from psychosocial support to psychosocial well-being
Bernard van Leer Foundation event. Speakers: Bernard van Leer Foundation, UNICEF, AFXB/Harvard University. Time: 12:30-14.30. Location: Skills Building Room 6.
Satellite: Supporting civil society engagement in Global Fund implementation: sharing experiences and perspectives
Co-chairs: Fareed Abdullah, Alliance; Jacob Gayle, Member of Private Foundations. Delegation to GF Board Speakers: Alvaro Bermejo, Alliance; Andriy Klepikov, Alliance Ukraine; Magatte Mbodj, ANCS, Senegal; Promboon Panitchpakdi, Raks Thai Foundation; Amira Herdoíza, Corporacion Kimirina, Ecuador; Duncan Earle, Global Fund; Christoph Benn, Global Fund; Luiz Loures, UNAIDS; Asia Russell, Health GAP, OIiver Adam, UNDP. Session number: 131. Time: 14:45-16:45. Location: Session Room 9, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Monday 14 August
Satellite: Sharing good practice on support to orphans and vulnerable children: the online toolkit and CD-ROM www.ovcsupport.net
Main presenter: the Alliance's Senior Technical Advisor, Children, Kate Harrison. Time: 07:00-08:30. Location: Skills Building Room 7, Level 800, South Building, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Mobilisation and fortification experience in key populations in HIV/AIDS political incidence in 5 regions of Peru
Alfonso Lescano – Via Libre. Session number: MOPE0934. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: High risk behaviours among HIV positive and negative men having sex with men (MSM) attending mythri clinics in Andhra Pradesh, India
K Sravan Kumar, D Rajesh, K Ramambu, P Sriker, P Prabhakar, Mythri STI/HIV Study Group. Session number: MOPE0582. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Poster discussion: Promoting greater involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS (GIPA) in Myanmar
Naw Shae Wah. Session number: MOPDD0. Time: 12:45-13:45. Location: PDS D, Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Skills building workshop: Enhancing the involvement of PLHA: what? Who? Why? How?
Anandi Yuvaraj. Session number: MOSB16. Time: 14:00-15:30 and 16:00-17:30. Location: Room SBR3.
Satellite: Morals and Politics – forces in the prevention agenda
Chair: Mr Lennarth Hjelmåker. Panelists: Nafis Sadik (others to be confirmed). Time: 18:00-20:00. Location: Session Room 6, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Tuesday 15 August
Poster Exhibition: Experience on promoting a children support group - a state level experience of PWDS-International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Tamilnadu, India
Anbiah John Sunder Singh, Palmyrah Workers Development Society (PWDS). Session number: TUPE0734. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Complex approach to tackling HIV/AIDS epidemic among IDUs
Lyudmyla Shulga, Alliance Ukraine. Session number: TUPE0574. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Experience of physical and psychological services by community based home care guides in resource poor settings
A J Sunder. Session number: TUPE0734. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster discussion: Scaling up lessons learned from the field
The Alliance's Fareed Abdullah to chair session. Poster presentations in session: TUKC501, TUKC503, TUKC504, TUKC505. Session number: TUKC5. Time: 12:45-13:45. Location: Key Challenge Area 5 (Room KC5) Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Symposium: Accountability: promises, performance and possibilities
Edgar Carrasco, Rolake Odetoyinbo, Shaun Mellors, Philippa Lawson, Bernard Gardiner, Anandi Yuvraj, As Sy, Jaqueline Rochas. Session number: TUSY10. Time: 16:15-17:45. Location: Session Room 3, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Wednesday 16 August
Oral presentation (theme: controversy and common ground): Stigma and discrimination: the undoing of universal access
Moderator: Mary Robinson. Speakers: Mandeep Dhaliwal, Laura C Nyblade, Charles Katende, Anuar Luna, Glenda Grey. (Mandeep Dhaliwal speaking on: stigma and discrimination as barriers to access). Session number: WECC01. Time: 10:45-12:15. Location: Session Room 2, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Skills building session: Managing implementation challenges in Global Fund grants
Facilitator: Christoph Benn. Andriy Klepikov to present on how Ukraine has approached tackling implementation challenges. Session number: WESB05. Time: 10:45-12:15. Location: Skills Building Room 5, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Preparing communities for ART in Zambia: Baseline findings from a community education and referral project
Fiona Samuels, ODI. Session number: WEPE0536. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Clinical outcomes in ART scale up, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Fareed Abdullah, Andrew Boulle, M Osler, P Bock. WEPE0075. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Poster exhibition: Spirituality, culture and sex: an ethnographic study of the mystico-erotic rituals as means of expression of same sex relationships between men, Andhra Pradesh, India
Thota Maheshwari, Shumon Sengupta. WEPE0727. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Scaling up comprehensive responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ukraine II: multidisciplinary approach to treatment, care and support – civil society and national government collaboration
Vyacheslav Kushakov. WEPE0954. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Symposium: Accountability for implementation of the UNGASS HIV/AIDS Declaration of Commitment: community-led monitoring
Rachel Guglielmo, Jacqueline Rocha Cortes, Olayide Akanni, Ronald Kayanja, Shaun Mellors, Alessandra Nilo, Khuat Thi Hai Oanh. WELP02. Time: 14:15-15:45. Location: Session Room 7, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Session type: Controversy and common ground: HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health, finding common ground: risk or reality
Chair: Izabelle de Soyza, WHO. Speakers: Dorothy Odhiambo, NAP+, Nono Simelela, IPPF, Javier Hourcade, International HIV/AIDS Alliance (speaking on Integrating sexual and reproductive health into HIV/AIDS). Discussants: Dr Lynn Collins, UNFPA, Naomi Rutenberg, Population Council. Time: 16:00-17.30. Location: to be confirmed.
Panel session: Global Fund: current developments and resource mobilisation for Round 6
Moderator: Peter van Rooijen (ICSS). Rapporteur: Natalia Ciausova (ICASO). Speakers: Mandeep Dhaliwal: ‘Update in the Partnership Forum’, Asia Russell/Shaun Mellors: ‘Leveraging CS involvement’, Javier Hourcade: 'Fund the Gap Campaign', Christoph Benn: ‘Update on Mid Term review and Replenishment Process’, Liz Mataka: ‘Why the GF needs Round 6’, Bernard Rivers: ‘Donor Contributions’. Time: 16:15-17:45. Location: Global Village Session Hall 2, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Oral abstract: Microbicide development
Co-chairs: Zeda Rosenberg, Robin Shattock. Jens van Roey – co-author speaking on ‘the use of a vaginal ring device containing TMC120 for the prevention of sexual transmission of HIV’. Session number: WEAA0503. Time: 16:15-17:45. Location: Session Room 9, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Satellite: Changing lives for 25 years and counting: HIV professionals living with HIV/AIDS
Collaboration between International AIDS Society and Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS. Jens van Roey – Panellist. Time: 18:00-20:00. Location: Session Room 7, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Thursday 17 August
Workshop: Empowering HIV-positive women and their families to demand prevention and treatment interventions for malaria
Shaun Mellors (co-chair). Time: 10:45-12:15. Location: Global Village, Session Hall 1.
Oral abstract session: Seven points of entry for ACTION – Microbicides, Treatment and Vaccines (MTV) advocates agenda
Shaun Mellors (author). Session number: THAX02. Time: 14:15 - 15:45. Location: Session Room 12.
Poster exhibition: Mobilising administrative, religious and customary authorities to provide care and support to OVC: challenges and lessons learned
Alimate Konaté, Initiative Privée et Communautaire Contre le Sida au Burkina Faso (IPC). Session number: THPE0954. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Is it possible for community-based organisations to evaluate their work? Our work in one of the largest participatory evaluations in the field of HIV/AIDS in Mexico
Valeria Brabata – INSAD, Ruth Ayarza – International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Gerardo Cabrera Resendiz – Colectivo Sol A.C. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Mobilising an environment for positive norms towards safer sex among men who have sex with other men (MSM)
Myo Min Oo, Alliance Myanmar. Session number: THPE0464. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Clients and families of female sex workers and men who have sex with men: their potential role in prevention efforts in India
Fiona Samuels (ODI). Session number: THPE0314. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Multiple stigma: discrimination and violence amongst female sex workers and men who have sex with men in Andhra Pradesh, India
Fiona Samuels (ODI), Ravi Verma (Population Council). Session number: THPE0273. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster: Involving the community in sustainable child centred responses that promote community based cared of orphans and vulnerable children – best practices from India
Thomas Varghese. Session number: THPE0808. Time 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: ‘Behaviour’ versus ‘prevalence’ – experiences with street children in an Indian setting
Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT). Session number: THPE0522. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Evidence based rapid scaling up of interventions with men who have sex with men (MSM) and trans-gender (TG) persons in Andhra Pradesh: lessons learnt from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance’s programme in Andhra Pradesh, India
Shumon Sengupta, Chulani de Zoysa, K Rambabu Khambampathi, G M Shastri (India HIV/AIDS Alliance - Andhra Pradesh). Session number: THPE0272. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Mapping of key population female sex workers (FSWs) and men having sex with men (MSM) in 8 districts of Andhra Pradesh – a quantitative and qualitative analysis
P. Srikar, Siddhartha Das, Shumon Sengupta and P. Prabhakar, India HIV/AIDS Alliance - Andhra Pradesh. Session number: THPE0566. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Poster exhibition: Community-led programme implementation: a success story in outreaching home based sex workers in Chittoor town, PASS NGO through Avahan Project, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh
K Shravan, B Kumar, D Anuradha, G Lakshmi, K Geeeta, G Lavanya, K Priya Yadava, Bala Khrishna Moorthy. Session number: THPE0808. Time: 12:30-14:00. Location: Poster Exhibition Area, Level 800, South Building of Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Panel discussion - learning from practice session: How did countries successfully scale up delivery of HIV services and how will they build on this success to achieve universal access?
Fareed Abdullah & Jim Kim to moderate/present (Fareed presenting on: ‘clinical outcomes in ART scale up, Western Cape Province, SA’). Dorothy Odhiambo, Richard Stern, Simon Makombe, Agnès Binagwaho. Session number: THLP04. Time: 14:15-15:45. Location: Session Room 5, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West.
Satellite: Access to treatment and care services for key populations in low to medium prevalence countries
Dr Ade Fakoya: setting up clinical care services for key populations in rural Andhra Pradesh, India; Carlos Cáceres: access to clinical services by gay men in Latin America; Meena Seshu: services for all - rightfully and with dignity; Mirana Fano Mezantsoa: integrated HIV/SRH clinical services for female sex workers in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar - a case study; Dr Anindya Chatterjee: enhancing impact of prevention interventions through treatment provision. Session number: 69. Time: 18:00-20:00. Location: Skills Building Room 10, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Satellite: Road Map for universal access to prevention, care, support and treatment in India
National AIDS Control Organization, UNAIDS, SAATHII and Civil Society Organization. Opening film on Alliance India's work on HIV/sexual and reproductive health integration with young people in Delhi - to be led by Purnima Mane, Alliance India. Time: 18:00-20:00. Location: Session Room 2, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Saturday 19 August
Short course following the conference: short course on evidence-based HIV/AIDS Programmes
Collaboration of IAS and Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR) at University of Toronto. Mandeep Dhaliwal involved. Saturday 19 to Wednesday 23 August 2006 inclusive. Location and timings to be confirmed.
Featuring on the conference CD-ROM:
Roles and responsibilities of civil society in the national response to HIV/AIDS in Senegal: resource mobilisation and the involvement of community stakeholder
Magatte Mbodj, Alliance Nationale Contre le Sida (ANCS), Senegal. CDD1195.
Civil society responses for care and support of PLHAs in Myanmar
Sarabi bi Thu Zar Win, Alliance Myanmar. CDD0778 (also on conference website).
Community based care and support for families affected by AIDS
Martha Paul Mya Thwe, Alliance Myanmar. CDB0926 (also on conference website).
Mobilisation and fortification experience in key populations in HIV/AIDS political incidence in 5 regions of Peru
Alfonso Lescano – Via Libre. MOPE0934.
Is it possible for community-based organisations to evaluate their work? Our work in one of the largest participatory evaluations in the field of HIV/AIDS in Mexico
Valeria Brabata – INSAD, Ruth Ayarza – International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Gerardo Cabrera Resendiz – Colectivo Sol A.C. CDD0983.
Health seeking behaviours of people living with HIV/AIDS in two sites in Andhra Pradesh, India: a descriptive study
Venkat Reddy, Prashanth, Anne Anish, D. Rajesh, P Prabhakar (India HIV/AIDS Alliance - Andhra Pradesh).
