Fwd: FW: Invitation to the HIV and Health Systems Pre-conference Meeting to be held 16-17 July 2010 in Vienna

[Sam Okuonzi]

Dear All,

Kindly see below. Please let me know if any of you would like to participate in the AIDS pre-conference on health systems. Also, indicate whether or not you can obtain funding for the conference from your organization. Very best regards, Sam

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jacqueline Bataringaya <jacqueline....@iasociety.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Subject: FW: Invitation to the HIV and Health Systems Pre-conference Meeting to be held 16-17 July 2010 in Vienna
To: Sam Okuonzi <soku...@gmail.com>, Sam Adjei <sam....@chessghana.org>, Sai Subhasree Raghavan <subhasree...@yahoo.com>, Sharonann Lynch <sharona...@gmail.com>, Harrison Kiambati <hkia...@yahoo.com>
Cc: Healthsystems2010 <Healthsy...@aids2010.org>, Julie Pluies <julie....@iasociety.org>

Dear Steering Committee Members,

 

As the AIDS 2010 Pre-conference on HIV and Health Systems approaches, we are now sending the invitation email to participants. Please find below the email we have sent so far. Please feel free to share it with your networks.

 

Attached is the list of potential participants who have already been invited. Kindly inform us if you know of any potential participants that we should invite.

 

Also let us know the names of the participants from your respective organization who will be attending the pre-conference in order to ensure that their places are reserved.

 

We thank you for your involvement and look forward to hearing from you,

 

Best regards,

 

Jacqueline Bataringaya

Dr. Jacqueline Bataringaya
Senior Policy Advisor

International AIDS Society (IAS)
Avenue Louis-Casaii 71
Postal Address P.O. Box 28
CH-1216 Cointrin
Geneva - Switzerland
Direct: +41 (0)22 710 0801
Main: +41 (0)22 710 0800
Fax: +41 (0)22 710 0899
Mobile: +41 (0)79 261 5603
Email: Jacqueline....@iasociety.org
Website: www.iasociety.org

 

Dear Colleagues, The International AIDS Society (IAS), in partnership with the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) and The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund), is pleased to invite you to a registration only meeting entitled: "Bridging the Divide: Inter-disciplinary Partnerships for HIV and Health Systems" to be held in Vienna from the 16th to 17th July 2010 at The Vienna Marriott Hotel. This meeting will precede the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010), 18 - 23 July 2010 in Vienna, Austria; and will be organized with funding from The Rockefeller Foundation. The objectives of the meeting are to: a. Foster interdisciplinary partnerships between HIV experts, experts from other health programs, health economists, and health systems experts; b. Present data and evidence from implementation research, rigorous evaluation and country case studies addressing vital questions on the impact of HIV programming on health systems; c. Discuss options for the future with respect to leveraging HIV programming to improve health systems and other priority health conditions; d. Highlight a priority research agenda re: HIV and health systems; Your expertise in health systems research, HIV and public health will be critical to ensuring the success of this meeting and to helping this unique gathering of global experts contribute to greater understanding of the interactions between HIV and Health Systems. Discussions will also advance emerging evidence and a priority research agenda in leveraging the impact of HIV scale up on health systems strengthening. We expect an attendance of 200 participants, which will include HIV and other health professionals, health systems experts, health economists and researchers on human resources for health. Details on the Agenda of the HIV and Health Systems Pre-Conference will be sent to you in due course, and in addition regular updates will be posted onto the IAS website at www.iasociety.org. Due to space limitations, this is a registration only meeting and places will be awarded on a first come first served basis. We are also working with a limited budget and do not have the means to finance your participation at this meeting. A distinguished Steering Committee, chaired by Wafaa El-Sadr Director of ICAP, Columbia University, is composed of a list of leading experts from key stakeholder organizations including Columbia University; The Global Fund; The World Bank; WHO; UNAIDS; USAID/OGAC/CDC; UNICEF; Médecins sans Frontières; Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp; University of Pretoria; University of Cape Town; Centre for Health and Social Services (CHESS-Ghana); Centre for Global Development (CGD); Ministry of Health of Kenya; African Center for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST-Uganda); African Council for Sustainable Health Development (ACOSHED) and the IAS. We look forward to a positive response to this invitation. Please note that meeting participants planning to attend the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) will have to register separately for AIDS 2010 at http://www.aids2010.org/Default.aspx?pageId=188 ; and will also be responsible for making their own travel arrangements to the Conference. If you have any questions, we invite you to contact Dr. Jacqueline Bataringaya, IAS Senior Policy Advisor (jacqueline....@iasociety.org). Please confirm your participation by emailing your registration to Julie Pluies, IAS Policy Assistant at Julie....@iasociety.org, cc to healthsy...@aids2010.org; or visit the IAS website for online registration. Please send your confirmation by the 31 May 2010. Best regards, Jacqueline Bataringaya
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[Talumba Banda]

Dear Sam,

This is to express my interest to participarte in the forth coming
AIDS pre-conference on health systems to take place in Vienna.
However, it is proving difficult apperently to obtain funding for the
conference from my organisation.

Regards,

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The International AIDS Society (IAS), in partnership with the International
> Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) and The Global Fund To
> Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund), is pleased to invite

> you to a *registration only meeting *entitled: *"Bridging the Divide:
> Inter-disciplinary Partnerships for HIV and Health Systems"* to be held in

> Bataringaya, IAS Senior Policy Advisor (*
> jacqueline....@iasociety.org*). Please confirm your participation by
> emailing your registration to Julie Pluies, IAS Policy Assistant at *
> Julie....@iasociety.org*, cc to *healthsy...@aids2010.org*; or

> visit the IAS website for online registration. Please send your confirmation

> by the *31 May 2010*.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jacqueline Bataringaya

>
> International AIDS Society
> 71 Ave Louis Casa
> P O Box 28, Cointrin, Geneva
> Switzerland CH-1216
> Telephone: +41 22 7100800
> Fax: +41 22 7100899
> www.iasociety.org

> *in...@iasociety.org*
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