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UNAIDS Eastern and Southern Africa sessions at IAS 2018

26 July 2018

Saturday 21 July 2018

Title: Successfully tackling the structural drivers of HIV
Type: Pre-conference
Time: 09:30–17:00
Venue: Emerald Room, Rai Convention Centre, Amsterdam
Organizers: STRIVE!, in partnership with DfID, UNAIDS, UNDP, SRHR Africa Trust
Description: The meeting will aim to synthesize evidence on structural drivers of HIV, including findings from studies conducted as part of the STRIVE research consortium. Policy makers, implementers, civil society advocates and researchers will lead a series of panel discussions on ways to tackle structural drivers that impact on:

  1. Sustainable Development Goals, by achieving multiple benefits
  2. The delivery of biomedical prevention technologies including PrEP
  3. The sexual health of adolescent girls and young women

Speakers: Catherine Sozi, Director, UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, will give opening remarks.
Contact: Jacqueline Makokha, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Title: Global Prevention Coalition: National programme managers consultation: Assessing Progress and Sharing Lessons on Implementation of the Global HIV Prevention Roadmap
Type: Pre-conference
Time: 09:00–17:30
Venue: Hotel Okura, Ferdinand Bostraat 333, Amsterdam
Organizers: UNAIDS and UNFPA
Speakers: Catherine Sozi, Director, UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, will chair the session “Addressing legal and policy barriers to effective prevention.”
Contact: Jacqueline Makokha, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


Sunday 22 July 2018

Title: HIV, rights and the law in the era of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Type: Global dialogue
Time: 08:30–17:00
Venue: Hall A11, Rai Convention Centre, Amsterdam
Organizers: UNDP
Description: The Global Dialogue will provide an opportunity for participants including government, civil society, people living with HIV, key populations, UN Member States, development agencies, donors and international organisations 1) to discuss the progress in implementing the recommendations of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, 2) to share good practices of removing punitive laws, policies and practices that are barriers for effective HIV responses and enforcing protective laws; 3) discuss the role of political leadership in the removal of punitive laws and the enforcement of protective laws, policies and practices required to address persistent legal and human rights issues on HIV and related co-infections; 4) explore the changing financing environment for HIV, human rights and the law; and 5) discuss new and emerging issues in HIV-related science and the lessons from HIV and the law, and advancing rights-based health responses in the context of achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Speakers: Catherine Sozi, Director, UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern is a panellist.
Contact: Jacqueline Makokha, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


Monday 23 July 2018

Title: Soft launch of the All In!, in Eastern and Southern Africa: Catalyzing the AIDS response for adolescents
Organizers: UNAIDS RST ESA and UNICEF ESARO
Description: This report will be soft launched by Catherine Sozi, Director of the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa and Leila Pakkala, UNICEF Regional Director during AIDS2018. The report demonstrates progress made in a few short years on adolescent HIV programming in Eastern and Southern Africa. The report tracks country progress and shows how governments and partners took up the initiative in order to better understand the status of adolescent HIV.
Contact: Natalie Ridgard, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., +27 82 909 2637
Title: Combination prevention for adolescents in eastern and southern Africa—evidence from the Evidence for HIV Prevention in Southern Africa (EHPSA) programme
Type: Satellite session
Time: 8:00–10:00
Venue: Rai Convention Centre, Amsterdam
Organizers: EHPSA
Speakers: Catherine Sozi, Director, UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern will chair the meeting.
Contact: Jacqueline Makokha, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Title: Roundtable on hyper HIV epidemics
Type: Roundtable
Time: 12:00–13:30
Venue: Hotel Okura, Ferdinand Bostraat 333, Amsterdam
Organizers: CSIS Global Health Policy Center, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), Pact, the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), the Georgetown University Center for Global Health and Quality, AVAC and Women’s Research Initiative on HIV/AIDS
Description: This roundtable will serve as an initial conversation to explore these questions and whether there is consensus to put together a coalition of empowered stakeholders to agree on and advance a new approach for hyper-epidemic areas that bridges sectors, disciplines, initiatives, and programs. The discussion will inform a potential course of action.
Speakers: Catherine Sozi, Director, UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern will participate in this invitation-only event.
Contact: Jacqueline Makokha, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Title: One-day planning meeting to increase access to integrated sexual and reproductive health and rights for women living with HIV
Type: Pre-conference meeting
Time: 09:00–17:00
Venue: Rai Convention Centre, Amsterdam
Organizers: Pan-African Positive Women’s Coalition and UNAIDS RST ESA
Description: The session will bring together 20 women living with HIV leaders and activists. The key aim is to define common advocacy priorities on SRHR for women living with HIV for use in the ESA Region to influence policy and programming.
Contact: Jacqueline Makokha, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


Tuesday 24 July 2018

Title: HIV and migration with a Fast-Track agenda
Type: Satellite session
Time: 07:00–08:30
Venue: Rai Convention Centre, Amsterdam
Organizers: UNAIDS RST ESA and International Organization for Migration, in partnership with WFP and Save the Children
Description: The satellite will share contributions from regional programmes, highlighting ongoing experience and selected best practices from Africa, including those identified by WFP and Save the Children. This satellite aims to build consensus on how to Fast Track HIV within migration policy and action and further identify and strengthen strategic partnerships.
Speakers: UNAIDS, IOM, WFP and civil society
Contact: Gary Jones, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Title: High-level leadership for prevention: key political and policy issues
Type: Satellite session
Time: 12:00–13:30
Venue: TBC
Organizers: South African National AIDS Council and UNAIDS Country Office South Africa
Description: South Africa, in collaboration with UNAIDS, has organised a leadership session to discuss high-level political and policy options needed to ratchet up HIV prevention and to realise the ambitious HIV prevention targets set in the 2016 UN General Assembly Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS and national targets. The session will bring together political figures (Ministers, Parliamentarians and so on) from South Africa and other countries in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Speakers: South African National AIDS Council Chairperson Deputy President David Mabuza will deliver the keynote address.
Contact: Mbulawa Mugabe, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Title: Girls not Brides: The global partnership to end child marriage
Type: Satellite session
Time: 18:30–20:30
Venue: The Forum, Rai Convention Centre, Amsterdam
Organizers: Global Fund and Government of Netherlands
Description: The discussion will focus on how we can work together to tackle the drivers of child marriage and HIV and help deliver a brighter future for girls and young women everywhere.
Speakers: Catherine Sozi, Director, UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, will participate in the panel: “Innovation and Impact: tipping the scale for adolescent girls and young women – child marriage and HIV, partnerships to tackle across sectors.”
Contact: Jacqueline Makokha, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Title: Kenya: Leadership and innovation for results in elimination of mother-to-child transmission and adolescent care
Type: Symposium
Time: 18:30–20:30
Venue: E105–E108, Rai Convention Centre, Amsterdam
Organizers: UNAIDS Country Office Kenya
Description: This symposium will highlight the pathways and partnerships needed for eliminating new HIV infections among children and ensure children grow up AIDS free. It seeks to foster an understanding of the complexities of a sustainable mother-to-child transmission and paediatric HIV response as an endeavour that requires sustainable and ongoing investments and efforts. The symposium will use the example of Kenya to promote a discussion on how to address inequity and reach people being left behind.
Speakers: Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director; Margaret Kenyatta, First Lady of Kenya; Deborah Birx, United States Global AIDS Coordinator; Charles Lyons, Elizabeth Glazer Paediatric AIDS Foundation
Contact: Jantine Jacobi, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


Wednesday 25 July 2018

Title: Scaling breakthrough innovation to transform the adolescent AIDS response
Type: Satellite session
Time: 18:30–20:30
Venue: Room E105–108, Rai Convention Centre, Amsterdam
Organizers: UNICEF
Description: This meeting will explore the innovation landscape, examining key policy, programmatic, and technological innovations underway to address the challenge of adolescent AIDS. Panellists will reflect on the tendency for innovations to remain at pilot scale, and will examine critical leadership, policy, systems, and financial attributes that have supported transformative scaling in a select few contexts, identifying critical themes that could inform the global adolescent AIDS response. Most importantly, adolescents and youth advocates will reflect on opportunities to leverage their agency, voice and participation in strengthening delivery platforms for adolescents.
Speakers: Catherine Sozi, Director, UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern will co-chair the session.
Contact: Jacqueline Makokha, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.