Invitation: Public debate on India's approach on HIV/AIDS policy and programmes

[Guest guest]

India's approach on HIV/AIDS policy and programmes:

The big questions

The Centre for Communication and Development Studies, Pune, and the Lawyers

Collective HIV/AIDS Unit, Mumbai, invite you to a discussion of important

questions related to India's HIV/AIDS policy and programmes. These are questions

that need more public debate:

Is HIV a major public health problem or does it get too much

attention?

Will the National AIDS Control Programme III make a difference?

Where does the money for AIDS programmes come from, and how is it

spent?

Are NGO programmes and government policy at loggerheads?

How have things changed for HIV-positive people in the last 22

years?

What are the experiences of people seeking treatment for AIDS?

What is the government doing to ensure access to new drugs?

What is happening to the HIV/AIDS Bill?

Speakers

Dr Kamakshi Bhate, department of preventive and social medicine, KEM

hospital, Mumbai

Dr R Gangakhedkar, deputy director, National AIDS Research Institute (NARI),

Pune

Prof Ramesh Bhat, dean, school of business management, NMIMS University, Mumbai

Ms Meena Seshu, general secretary, Sangram, Sangli

Mr Ashok Row Kavi, chairperson, Humsafar, Mumbai

Dr Eldred Tellis, director, Sankalp, Mumbai

Dr Alaka Deshpande, department of medicine, JJ Hospital, Mumbai

Mr K Gopakumar, Centre for Trade and Development, New Delhi

Mr KK Abraham, Indian Network of Positive People, Chennai

Ms Ujwala Kadam, Soudamini Network of Positive People, Pune

Ms Daksha Patel, Gujarat Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, Surat

Ms Kalpana Gaikwad, Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit

Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008

Venue: YWCA International Guesthouse, Opposite Regal Cinema, Colaba, Mumbai

Time: 10 am to 5 pm

Centre for Communication and Development Studies

Kanchanjunga Building Kanchan Gully, Off Law College Road,

Pune 411 004

Phone: (020) 2685 2845 / 2545 7371

email: anagha@...

www.infochangindia.org

www.openspaceindia.org/ www.ccds.in

Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit

61 Jalaram Kripa, Janmabhoomi Marg

Mumbai, Fort, Mumbai 400 001

Phone: (022) 2287 5482/ 83

aidslaw@...

www.lawyerscollective.org

Sandhya Srinivasan

e-mail: <sandhya199@...>