HIV and Millennium Development Goals: Can We Do One Without The Other?
18 JULY 2010 | VIENNA
Organizer: AIDS 2010: Rights Here, Right Now
Event dates: 18 July 2010
Venue: Vienna, Austria
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Presentation by Ann Starrs, President of FCI
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While other factors contribute to undermining MDG progress, evidence shows that HIV is a significant factor across most MDGs, particularly the health-related MDGs 4, 5 and 6. The global community has therefore reached a critical juncture given that now, more than ever before, we have the knowledge, innovative technologies, and proven tools to achieve progress in global health. Adequate resources are required for a sustainable and comprehensive HIV/AIDS response which maximizes efficiencies, ensures quality and that contributes to broader health and development outcomes.
This session will provide an opportunity to critically examine interactions between HIV and other health MDGs; The session will help to inform discussions at the UN General Assembly MDG Summit planned for September 2010.
Presentations
- HIV and health MDGs: Critical Interactions, Policy Evolution and Implications, by Dr Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of Department of HIV/AIDS WHO
- Drivers of Inequality in Millennium Development Goal Progress: What is the evidence? by David Stuckler, Oxford University
- HIV and MNCH (MDGs 4 and 5): can we do one without the other? Key Issues and emerging evidence, by Ann Starrs, President, Family Care International
Other panel participants include Debrework Zewdie of Ethiopia, Director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program for the World Bank (session chair); Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of the HIV Department at WHO, David Stuckler of Oxford University; José Gomes Temporão, Minister of Health of Brazil; Morolake Odetoyinbo, Nigerian health activist and founder of PATA- Positive Action for Treatment Access; and Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator.