Community Scholarships for Treatment Education and Advocay Summit

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Application Form for South Asian Countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,

India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan & Srilanka)

International HIV/AIDS Treatment Education and Advocacy Summit

Cape Town, South Africa 13-16 March 2003

Description

An international coalition of HIV/AIDS organizations and individual

advocates are sponsoring a four-day global summit on " treatment

preparedness " in March 2003 in Cape Town, South Africa.

" Treatment preparedness " is a term used to describe HIV/AIDS treatment

education and advocacy efforts that are designed to increase access to and

demand for HIV/AIDS treatment and prepare communities for safe and

effective use of HIV therapies. We are using the term " HIV/AIDS treatment " to

encompass a broad range of treatment and care interventions, including,

but not limited to, treatment of opportunistic infections and sexually

transmitted infections, palliative care, and antiretroviral therapy.

The International HIV/AIDS Treatment Education and Advocacy Summit will be

relatively small gathering of approximately 125 people. The primary goal

of the meeting is to create a framework for the development, maintenance and

enhancement of local and regional treatment preparedness efforts around

the world.

To our knowledge, this is the first global summit that will be evaluating

treatment preparedness efforts worldwide. The summit will also be the

first chance for many people working on treatment education and advocacy around

the world to meet and discuss their work. Finally, the summit will offer

an opportunity to strategize about solutions to systemic challenges that

affect treatment advocacy and education efforts.

The Summit will have four main sections:

* The first section will consist of regional reports about treatment

access and education. Presenters from five regions will answer these questions:

* What is the state of treatment availability in the region?

* What treatment advocacy efforts are happening in the region?

* What treatment education efforts are happening in the region?.

Regional subcommittees of the organizing committee will prepare these

reports in advance of the summit.

The five regions are: Eastern Europe and the States of the Former Soviet

Union/Central Asia; Africa; United States, Canada and Western Europe;

Latin America and the Caribbean; and Asia-Pacific (East Asia and Pacific, South

and Southeast Asia, including Australia, New Zealand and Japan).

* The second section of the meeting is dedicated to identifying needs,

obstacles, and models for strengthening treatment advocacy and education,

including:

* Identifying models for treatment education materials in various forms;

* Defining the components of a " minimum " package of treatment education

services and information;

* Defining treatment advocacy;

* Determining local and regional advocacy needs;

* Discussing how to start and strengthen treatment education and treatment

advocacy programs, and;

* Identifying and overcoming challenges to our progress in treatment

education and advocacy.

* The third section of the meeting will give participants the opportunity

to meet with other advocates and educators from their regions to discuss:

specific regional needs; how to apply ideas and strategies raised during

the meeting in a local setting; how regional networks and information sharing

can be built and/or strengthened, and; the organization of regional

meetings on treatment education and advocacy.

* The fourth section of the meeting will be devoted to systemic issues,

including:

* Identifying and securing funding for local and regional efforts;

* Establishing resource centers for treatment preparedness materials;

* Technical assistance;

* Collaborating and creating linkages with health care providers, drug

treatment and harm reduction providers, NGOs, and others who provide HIV

care and education; and

* Global and regional advocacy efforts

The agenda subcommittee of the organizing committee is constructing the

final agenda for the meeting.

Airfare, accommodation, meals and a small per diem will be offered to all

applicants that are selected by the ITP working group to attend the

summit.

To learn more about the International HIV/AIDS Treatment Education and

Advocacy Summit, please contact treatmentpreparedness2003@....

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International HIV/AIDS Treatment Education and Advocacy Summit

Cape Town, South Africa

13-16 March 2003

Application Form for South Asian Countries

(Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan &

Srilanka)

Applications for South Asian Countries should be returned to

Both E-Mail Addresses (E-mail Applications are highly preferred)

inpplus@...

Mailing Address:

South Asia Regional Committee Secretariat

HIV/AIDS Treatment Education and Advocacy Summit

C/0 Indian Network of Positive People (INP+)

Flat No.6, Kash Towers

93 South West Boag Road

T.Nagar , Chennai - 600 017

Phone:+91-44-4329580/81

Fax:+91-44-4329582

Questions about the other Asia/Pacific Regions and Treatment Summit

Contact: Dr. Sai Subhasree Raghavan

ITP Asia-Pacific Region Selection Committee.

e-mail: ssr12@... and saathii@...

Applications must be received by: 31 January 2003

A. Personal information

First name: Last name:

Age:

Gender: female male transgender

Home address:

City: Country:

Home telephone:

e-mail address (if applicable):

How did you hear about this Summit?

Note: plenaries and break-out sessions of the International HIV/AIDS

Treatment Education and Advocacy Summit will only be simultaneously

translated in English, Spanish, French and Russian. Would you need

translation into any other language?

B. Organizational information

1. What organization do you represent?

Write the address of the organization here:

Address:

City: Country:

Telephone: Fax:

Website address (if applicable):

2. What type of organization is it? (Please check all that apply.)

__ Community based organization

__ Non-governmental organization (NGO)

__ national NGO __ international NGO

__ Health Clinic

__ Hospital

__ public __ private

__ Religious Organization/Faith Based Organization

__ Governmental organization/agency

__ Other (please specify)

__ None

3. Briefly describe the type of work your organization does.

4. What other HIV related groups, organizations and/or networks are you

involved with?

5. Which HIV training and education programs are you involved with?

6. What experience do you have doing treatment advocacy and treatment

education?

(NOTE: " HIV/AIDS treatment " to encompasses a broad range of treatment and

care interventions, including, but not limited to, treatment of

opportunistic infections and sexually transmitted infections, palliative

care, and antiretroviral therapy.)

7. Briefly describe the treatment education and advocacy programs that

exist

at the local and national level in your country.

8. What are the treatment education and advocacy needs at the local and

national level in your country?

9. What are the treatment education and treatment advocacy needs of the

communities you work with?

C. Goals and Expectations

10. Why do you want to attend this summit?

11. What are you expecting to gain from this summit?

12. What interests you about treatment advocacy and treatment education?

13. If you are selected to attend, will you be able to compile existing

treatment education materials available in your country before the summit?

14. If you are selected to attend, what are your plans for increasing

treatment education and treatment advocacy after the summit is over?

15. If you are selected to attend, how do you plan to work with other

groups

to increase treatment education and treatment advocacy after the summit is

over?

Thank you for taking the time to complete this application. The list of

participants selected to attend the summit will be announced on February

1, 2003.

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