Events

A symposium entitled “HIV SCALE-UP AND GLOBAL HEALTH SYSTEMS” was held on Tuesday, December 1st, 2009, on the occasion of World AIDS Day. Organized by the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the day-long symposium included numerous panels comprised of leading figures in the public health arena and drew a total of more than one thousand audience members. 

In exploring this important and timely topic, the invitation-only event built upon the issues raised in the November 2009 supplement of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS), which was organized by ICAP, and includes experiences and perspectives from colleagues at ICAP and around the world.

Symposium panels addressed topics such as the impact of HIV scale-up on the development of primary and chronic healthcare systems, the effect of HIV programming on women’s health and rights, and the future of HIV financing. Among others, panelists included:

• Peter Berman (World Bank)
• Mickey Chopra (UNICEF)
• Pamela Collins (Office of Global Mental Health at the National Institute of Mental Health)
• Mark Dybul (Georgetown University),
• Gregg Gonsalves (International Treatment Preparedness Coalition)
• Lynn Freedman (Columbia University),
• Ariel Pablos-Mendez (Rockefeller Foundation)
• Jeremy Shiffman (Syracuse University)
• Miriam Temin (co-author of Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health)
• Helen de Pinho (Columbia University)