Launch of Key Resource Materials Promoting a Comprehensive Response to HIV

[Guest guest]

Invitation: Launch of a Key Resource Materials Pack for Promoting a

Comprehensive Response to HIV May 19, 2005, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Jacaranda I, India

Habitat Centre

Dear friends,

Oxfam GB takes pleasure in inviting you to the Launch of a Toolkit: " Maximising

Access: Care can propel HIV Prevention " . The event is organized by Oxfam GB in

collaboration with National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), UNAIDS and Sexual

Health Resource Centre (SHRC).

Oxfam believes that HIV prevention and care are not distinct from each other. So

far there has been little exploration of ways and means to link the two crucial

responses beyond good intentions and guidelines on paper. By providing medicines

to people, the Indian National response has created a unique opportunity to

explore the ways in which providing care to people living with HIV can push

prevention efforts and vice versa.

The Toolkit is particularly significant in the wake of the promised provision of

free Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) to one lakh HIV-affected people by the Indian

government.

The main areas explored in the Toolkit are:

* What are the care-prevention dynamics?

* How is a system of comprehensive care defined?

* What systems need to be in place in order to maximize access to

care?

* How would a user-centered system be designed for the delivery of

care having links with prevention?

Agenda

Technical Panel Discussion on

Current status of ART rollout

Interventions on prevention vs care & support needs which accelerate prevention

Experience sharing from treatment centers

Balancing care and prevention needs in State AIDS Control Programme

NGO experiences in implementing a continuum of care and prevention programme

Release of Toolkit - By Dr S Y Quraishi, Director General, National AIDS

Control Organisation (NACO)

The panel will include senior representatives from NACO, UNAIDS,

OXFAM, Centre for Disease Control, USA (CDC). W.H.O has also been invited.

Kindly join us for lunch after the function.

Ramesh Venkataraman

Regional HIV Advisor, South Asia

Oxfam GB

E-mail: rvenkataraman@...; M(9810043938)

For further information please contact:

Sucheta at sucheta@..., +11-51632246, M (9891747855);

tomphilip@..., +11-51632246, M(9810149015)

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