Where are the children? Exploring Key Issues, Efforts and Challenges in Programme and Policy Responses to Children and HIV AND AIDS

Please join the HSRC, the Nelson Mandela Foundation's 46664 Campaign and South Africa’s Department of Social Development at their satellite session.

Presentations

HIV transmission in children in three southern African countries
Dr Olive Shisana, President and CEO of the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa

Efforts to support children affected
Mr David Alnwick, United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF)

South Africa’s policy and programmatic efforts to ensure support for infected and affected children
Dr Zola Skweyiya Minister of Social Development in South Africa

My Personal Story
Ms Tembi Ngubane, an-HIV positive AIDS activist and ambassador of the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s 46664 campaign

Date:  Monday 4 August 2008
Time:  18:30 – 20:30
Venue:  SBR 6

Skills Building Session: Scaling up a Positive Prevention Intervention in High-HIV/AIDS Prevalence Countries: Adaptation, Implementation, and Sustainability of Healthy Relationships program

Jointly hosted by HSRC, University of Connecticut and National Institutes of Health (NIH).

This workshop will build skills for adapting and implementing effective HIV transmission prevention interventions targeted to people living with HIV/AIDS (e.g. Positive Prevention). UNAIDS has identified positive prevention as an essential element of comprehensive prevention plans and positive prevention is included in the National Strategic Plan of South Africa.  In the US, the CDC has disseminated a positive prevention intervention called Healthy Relationships to hundreds of US-based NGOs. Healthy Relationships assists people living with HIV to manage AIDS-related stigma, make effective HIV disclosure decisions, and reduce sexual risk practices. The HSRC has successfully adapted Healthy Relationships for use in South Africa and Botswana, an experience that provides the substance for this workshop.

An interactive skills-building approach will be used and will include semi-structured presentations of models of positive prevention, interactive group exercises for adapting and tailoring interventions in resource limited and high prevalence countries, and small group breakouts to practice skills for identifying, adapting, and tailoring program components for specific target populations.   You will gain the following skills:

• identification of the principles of positive prevention interventions;
• practical knowledge for implementing the Healthy Relationships curriculum;
• use of a systematic approach for adapting the Healthy Relationships   
• program for use in resource limited and high-AIDS prevalence countries;
• strategies for building community support, accessing resources, and  
• sustaining Healthy Relationships in resource limited countries.

Presenters

• Leickness Simbayi of HSRC South Africa, who has adapted and implemented Healthy Relationships in South Africa and Botswana together with Allanise Cloete.
• Seth Kalichman, who developed the original intervention model tested in the US, and
• Willo Pequegnat and Lisa Strader, who have conducted skills-building workshops on program adaptation and technology transfer in resource-limited countries in and outside of Africa.

Date:  Monday 4 August 2008
Time: 14:30 – 18:00
Venue:  SBR 3

Plenary Session: No small issue: children and families

Linda Richter (South Africa), Human Sciences Research Council

Date:  Wednesday 6 August 2008
Time: 08:30 – 09:30
Venue:  GVSR 1