India 60: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic – Building Bridges to Health and Development

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India 60: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic – Building Bridges to Health and

Development

DATE: February 6, 2008

TIME: 9 am. - 5 pm

LOCATION: B1 Conference Room

DESCRIPTION:

The South Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International

Studies (CSIS), cordially invites you to participate in a conference

titled, " India 60: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic – Building Bridges to Health

and Development " on February 6, 2008, from 9 A.M. till 4 P.M.

CSIS's Task Force on HIV/AIDS has been working with health policy

makers and geostrategic thinkers to help the U.S. government craft an

effective and sustainable response to the epidemic. It is co-chaired

by Senators Feingold and Sununu, and includes prominent

medical, business and scientific participants. The task force aims to

build bipartisan consensus on critical U.S. policy initiatives and

promote U.S. leadership in strengthening prevention, care, and

treatment of HIV/AIDS in affected countries.

This conference is an outgrowth of our work over the past four years

on U.S. policy toward HIV/AIDS in India. We believe it is important

to give the Washington audience an up-to-date assessment of India's

efforts to fight the epidemic, and a sense of how India's work fits

into the larger context of building public health and encouraging

economic development.

DRAFT AGENDA

India 60: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic – Building Bridges to Health and

Development February 6, 2008. 9 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.

B-1 Conference Center

India's first HIV case was discovered just over twenty years ago.

Earlier this year, the government launched a new phase of its

National AIDS Control Program, to cover the period 2007-2012. While

this program is HIV/AIDS-specific, policymakers in India and

elsewhere have long believed that fighting this pandemic over the

long term requires close integration with other aspects of public

health and international development. This conference will examine

the issues and institutions in India that are at the heart of this

integration effort.

9:00 A.M. Introductory Remarks Ambassador Teresita C. Schaffer

Director, South Asia Program, CSIS

Dr. on Executive Director, CSIS Task Force on HIV/AIDS

Keynote Address

Dr. K. Sujatha Rao (Accepted). Director-General, National AIDS Control

Organization, Government of India

9:45 A.M. Coffee Break

10:00-11:30 Panel I: HIV/AIDS and Public Health

Panel Chair: Dr. Rubina Imtiaz (Accepted)

CDC Country Representative & Country Director (India), CDC/GAP

Dr. K. Srinath Reddy (Accepted)

President, Public Health Foundation of India

In case you have any questions, please contact Vibhuti Haté or

Ellis in the South Asia Program. They can be reached via

email at vhate@... / jellis@... , by phone at 202-775-3184/

3124 and fax on 202-775-3199.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues. This

event is free and open to the public, but registration is mandatory.

Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1800 K Street, NW,

Washington DC, 20006 | Tel: 202-887-0200 | Fax: 202-775-3199

http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_events/task,view/id,1478/