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TREATMENT PREPAREDNESS
International Treatment Preparedness Summit
A coalition of AIDS organizations and individual advocates from all over the world are sponsoring a four-day global summit on treatment preparedness in March 2003 in Cape Town, South Africa. The meeting will be a relatively small gathering of approximately 125 people to discuss treatment advocacy and literacy and to create a plan to ensure that advocacy and education efforts reach those who need it most.
GOALS
The primary goal of the meeting is to come up with a framework for the development, maintenance and enhancement of local and regional treatment preparedness efforts around the world. The ITP working group hopes to use the summit to craft a template for approaching foundations, national governments, and international organizations to directly support local and regional efforts for education and advocacy in the developing world. The summit will also be the first chance for many people working on treatment preparedness around the world to meet and discuss their work with each other. In addition, the work being done in preparation for the summit and to be discussed at the meeting will allow participants to learn about the state of treatment access and preparedness internationally. This will be the first time that there will be a global picture of treatment preparedness efforts available to advocates, educators and others concerned about HIV treatment access. Importantly, the meeting will also be the first opportunity for global community leaders working on treatment preparedness to learn from each other about how to establish and strengthen programs in these areas. Finally, the summit will also offer an opportunity to strategize about systemic issues that affect all treatment advocacy and education programs around the world to see if there are solutions that can be achieved regionally and internationally.
Treatment education materials from programs all over the world are also being collected for the summit, which will give participants an opportunity to see, discuss and bring home the actual documents and other media that are being used for treatment literacy efforts by their colleagues.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The meeting will have four main sections.
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1) The first section will consist of reports from five regions on the state of treatment available, treatment advocacy efforts, current treatment education efforts in each country/region: [. The regions Eastern Europe and the States of the Former Soviet Union/Central Asia; Africa; United States, Canada and Western Europe; South and Latin America and the Caribbean, and; Asia-Pacific (East Asia and Pacific, South and Southeast Asia, including Australia, New Zealand and Japan)]
2) The second section of the meeting is dedicated to identifying needs, obstacles, and models for developing and maintaining treatment advocacy and literacy efforts, including:
- The identification of types of programs needed both locally and regionally;
- The identification of models for the development and distribution
of treatment literacy materials in various forms;
- The definition of the components for a "minimum" package of
needed treatment literacy services and information;
- The definition of treatment advocacy;
- The identification of processes needed to establish local and
regional advocacy needs;
- A discussion of priority setting and program models for advocacy,
including the establishment of networks;
- The identification of ways to establish and strengthen both
literacy and advocacy programs, and;
- The identification of obstacles and challenges to our progress in
this area.
3) The third section of the meeting will give participants the
opportunity to meet with other advocates and educators from their
regions to discuss: their particular needs; how ideas raised in the
previous sessions might best be applied in the region; how regional
networks and information sharing can be built and/or strengthened,
and; the organization of a regional meeting on treatment preparedness.
4) The final session of the meeting will be devoted to systemic
issues, including:
- Identifying and securing funding for local and regional efforts;
- Establishing communications capabilities and creating networks;
- The establishment of a materials repository and processes for
materials dissemination;
- Identifying methods for updating and translating education and
advocacy information;
- Technical assistance;
- Global advocacy efforts on treatment preparedness;
- Regional advocacy efforts;
- Creating linkages and collaborations with health care providers,
drug treatment providers, NGOs, and other groups who provide care and
education.
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