Ending Inequalities for Children in the AIDS Response: Fighting Complacency and Closing the Gaps

This side event will showcase the progress that can and has been achieved when political commitment, financing and community leadership come together to scale up state-of-the-art technology overcome inequalities and provide children at risk or living with HIV the best start in life and ensure they remain healthy to safely raise the next generation. The event will also call for innovative approaches, coupled with renewed action from national and community-level political leadership on pediatric HIV and AIDS, and provide an advocacy platform focused on resources, policies and visibility needed to fully and urgently address the inequalities facing women, children and families in our communities.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS
Dr. Angeli Achrekar, PEPFAR
Dr. Jean-Jacques Mbungani Mbanda, Minister of Health of Democratic Republic of Congo
Henrietta Fore, UNICEF
Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization, Africa
Chip Lyons, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

SESSION ONE: Inequities and Innovation: Today’s Pediatric HIV/AIDS Response

Dr. Angela Mushavi, Ministry of Health and Child Services, Zimbabwe
Dr. Nelly Mugo, University of Washington
Dr. Olawale Fadare, ICAP
Dr. Martina Penazzato, World Health Organization
Luann Hatane, PATA
Meg Doherty, World Health Organization

SESSION TWO: Africa Taking the Lead for Children

Dr. Margaret Agama Anyatei, African Union
Dr. Rose Nyirenda, National AIDS Program, Malawi
Dr. Catherine Ngugi, Ministry of Health, Kenya
Dr. Linda-Gail Bekker, Desmond Tutu Health Foundation
Dr. Siobhan Crowley, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria
Florence Anam, GNP+
Dee Mpafi Tanka, EGPAF Peer Counselor, Lesotho
Dr. Chewe Luo, UNICEF

Closing Remarks

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Organizers: EGPAF/UNAIDS/UNICEF/PEPFAR

Zoom: https://unaids.zoom.us/j/95037801629

YouTube: https://youtu.be/etmIadyAkH0