[procaare] 6th HCC - Update & announcements

[6th HCC Secretariat & ProCAARE <procaare@healthnet.org>]

6th HCC - Update & announcements
September, 2003
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6th HCC Conference, Dakar, 2003- Update & announcements
December 8 - 11

1.         KEY CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES
2.         CONFERENCE THEME:  "MORE CARE FOR BETTER LIVING"
3.         THE SECRETARIAT STAFF
4.         MARATHON MEETING
5.         THANK TO THE SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONS
6.         CONFERENCE REGISTRATION!
7.         SCHOLARSHIP AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION HAS PAST
8.         EXHIBITORS STAND
9.         LATE BREAKERS DEADLINE
10.        INVITATION TO JOIN PROCAARE PRE-CONFERENCE DISCUSSION
11.        CONFERENCE VENUE
12.        CONTACT DETAILS


1. KEY CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

The Dakar 2003 Conference on Home and Community based Care, the first of
its kind, will be an opportunity to mainstream the care issue into the
political agenda at national and international levels. It will promote
political and institutional mobilisation, and will help in the
development of actions helping reach the objectives of the Declaration
of Commitment of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on
HIV/AIDS.

The Dakar 2003 Conference will be an ideal place to provide the bases
for dynamic reflection on conference monitoring and evaluation in terms
of concrete actions and commitment of Governments, partners and Civil
Society to comply with the rights of PLHA's and the improvement of their
living conditions.

The objectives assigned to the 6th Home & and Community Care Conference
are defined as follows:
- to develop community experiences and to allow for their
capitalisation;
- to strengthen cooperation between community services, formal social
and health services in the area of care provision and prevention;
- to promote Home and Community evidence based projects through sharing
of evaluation and research results
- to assist in better understanding the provision of community care as a
factor facilitating access to care and to OI/antiretroviral drugs in
particular;
- to promote the struggle against all forms of discrimination and
stigmatization within the context of care provision;
- to share advocacy tools in order to convince and involve the leaders
at various levels of their interventions so that community mobilization
could be accompanied and durably supported;
- to encourage a debate on the provision of community care as a
contributing factor to economic and social development

This will not just be another conference but be a chance to create a
framework for experience sharing and encourage capacity building and the
popularization of best practice in terms of care throughout the world.


2. CONFERENCE THEME: "MORE CARE FOR BETTER LIVING"

The theme of the 6th Home and Community Care Conference, "More Care for
Better Living" attempts to put the focus on the priority needs of PLHA's
with the increasing availability of antiretroviral drugs (ARV). With the
majority of PLHA's living in a context dominated by poverty, social
inequalities and HIV-related stigma and injustice, PLHA's deserve better
quality care from formal health services, in the community and in their
own homes.

The theme of the Conference is also original given the current global
context of a search for large-scale approaches that would allow PLHA's to
"better treat themselves" to "lead a better life", to "fulfill
themselves" and to contribute to the development of their respective
countries.


3. THE SECRETARIAT STAFF

We would like to present all staff members that, so far, have joined the
Conference secretariat:

Conference Chair: Dr. Ibra Ndoye
Conference Coordinator: Magatte Mbodj
Scientific Coordinator: Pr Pape Salif SOW
Chief Financial Officer: M. Yoro THIAM
Community Coordinator: M. Ibrahima Keita
Scientific Staff: M. Daouda DIOUF and Dr Ndèye fatou NGOM
Exhibitor Liaison: Melle Ramatoulaye NDIAYE
Registration: Mme Rockhaya Diedhiou


4. MARATHON MEETING

October 6 to 10, members of the International Steering Committee and the
International Scientific Committee will attend the Marathon Meeting in
Dakar.


5. THANK TO THE SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONS

Organisers:
- Senegal National Council Against AIDS
- International Council of AIDS Service organizations (ICASO)
- International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
-  International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
(IFRC)
- Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+)

Co-Sponsors : ·
AFRICASO - Bill and Mélinda Gates Foundation - WHO - UNAIDS - UNDP -
USAID - French Cooperation - European Union - Ensemble Contre le SIDA -
Family Health International.

Other partners :
UNFPA - UNICEF - ILO - Belgian Cooperation- Japanese Cooperation -
Canadian Cooperation - Norwegian Cooperation- German Cooperation -
Swedish Cooperation - Dutch Cooperation - World AIDS/Tuberculosis/
Malaria Fund - FORD Foundation - GBCA - Rockefeller Foundation- World
Bank - Republic of China - DFID - GIP ESTHER - ANRS - OPALS - Health &
Development Networks (HDN) - CIDA - OPDAS - AIDES - Solidarité SIDA -
AIDS Trust International - Pharmaceutical Companies - AMFAR - IAVI -
JSI.


6. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Please visit our website www.dakarvihs2003.sn to register. If you
register before October 31st you will save up to $50!

Early Registration (ER). Before October 31st  2003.

Late Registration (LR) on or after October 31st 2003.

International Participant ER $450; LR $500
Local Participants   ER $225; LR $250
Accompanying Persons  ER $125; LR$150

Media registration is free of charge.

For any questions regarding registration, please feel free to get in
touch with the Conference Secretariat cipeccvihdak@sentoo.sn  or
cipecdak1@sentoo.sn or cipecdak2@sentoo.sn


7. SCHOLARSHIP AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

The scholarship and abstract submission deadlines have already passed.
We will provide information about the final figures after the marathon
meeting.


8. EXHIBITOR STANDS

Application forms can be downloaded from our web site. Go to
http://www.dakarvih2003.sn/anglais/aregistration.html (bottom of page).
The deadline is 15th November 2003.


9. LATE BREAKERS DEADLINE

The deadline for submission of late breaking abstracts is the 20
september.

For further information or to submit your entry please contact
Ms Ramatoulaye NDIAYE: cipecdak2@sentoo.sn or
Mrs Rockhaya Diedhiou: cipecdak1@sentoo.sn

6th HCC Secretariat & ProCAARE Moderation taem
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