HIV treatment for all – a realistic project

30.09.2008

Bern | aidsfocus.ch Forum on successes and challenges of HIV treatment in resource-limited settings.

Successful therapies have shown that if existing resources are invested in a good and wise manner a lot can be achieved in resource-poor countries of the South as well. The evaluation of the achievements of the integrated HIV and AIDS treatment and care programme of the Swiss Red Cross in Swaziland is the starting point for discussion. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has demonstrated successful HIV therapies in 32 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A recent study by the Berne University even comes to the conclusion that ARV treatment in slums of South Africa is as effective as it is in Switzerland.

What are the factors contributing to successful treatment of people living with HIV and AIDS in resource-limited settings in Africa, Asia and Latin America? What are the minimal medical requirements for ARV therapies? What kind of support is needed to ensure life-long adherence to medication? How can the growing number of children living with HIV be treated? How do we deal with the reluctance of being tested for HIV, with stigma and taboo?

Today, 3 million HIV-positive people worldwide have access to lifesaving medication. But still, this is just a third of the people in need. What are the main challenges still to over-come in scaling up comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment and care in order to realize universal access to HIV-treatment by 2010?

The forum organised by aidsfocus.ch in cooperation with the Swiss Red Cross takes up these burning issues and based on concrete evidence opens up the discussion on chal-lenges, approaches and strategies regarding comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment and care.

Invited to the forum are all partners of aidsfocus.ch, representatives of development and aid agencies dealing with issues of HIV and AIDS and poverty alleviation as well as all people interested in these issues.

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Programme: Treatment for all – a realistic project
30 September 2008, 2.15 – 4.45 p.m., Bern

Welcome by Helena Zweifel, Coordinator aidsfocus.ch

“Together we can”. Best practices of the AIDS Programme in Swaziland (Swiss and Swaziland Red Cross Society): Film

Lilly Pulver, Programme Coordinator / Esther Oester, Head of Operations, Swiss Red Cross
Meeting people in need. Achievements and lessons learnt from an integrated HIV and AIDS partnership programme, Swaziland

Johnny Lujan, HIV/AIDS Referent Medical Department, MD, Médecins sans Frontières
Experiences in Swaziland and Mozambique, lessons learnt and future chal-lenges of ART treatment

Stefan Germann, Director for Learning and Partnership, Global Health and HIV Team, World Vision International
Access to treatment – Are children included in the global agenda?

Olivia Keiser, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
Public health and individual approach to antiretroviral therapy: Township South Africa and Switzerland compared


Conference language: English
Venue: kornhausforum, Kornhausplatz 18, 3011 Bern, www.kornhausforum.ch
Admission fee: partners of aidsfocus.ch CHF 25.-, others: CHF 50.-

Coordination: Helena Zweifel, aidsfocus.ch / Medicus Mundi Switzerland

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