Workshop Focus Area

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AIDS 2010 workshop Programme has been grouped into three broad areas targeting a particular audience. These areas cover a range of content and teach specific skills that can be applied within the workplace or life setting. The main purpose of the grouping is to guide delegates seeking to develop or enhance skills about a specific topic to the workshop that will best correspond to their need. The workshops have been clustered in either scientific, community or leadership and accountability fields.

Below is the list of workshops under each broad theme. For more detailed information on a specific topic, visit the programme-at-a-glance. 

Professional Development

These workshops promote and enhance knowledge transfer, skills development and collaborative learning about the latest scientific research and breakthroughs in policy and programme issues.

List of workshops selected from the public submission Crime and Punishment: Making the Case Against the Criminalization of HIV Transmission   Distance Based Learning Technologies E-Health and Social Media for Clinical HIV Management   Implementing Evidence-Based HIV/STD Prevention Programs   Improving Access to ARV’s Through Compulsory Licensing: A How-To Course   Improving Access to Pregnancy Planning and Reproductive Options for People Living with HIV through Evidence Based Policy Development and Advocacy   Pediatric Disclosure: How to Talk and What to Explain about HIV to Children   Physical and Cognitive Rehabilitation Following Complications of HIV Disease: Designing and Delivering Services in Different Settings   Scaling up HIV Testing and Counselling in Eastern Europe and Central Asia with Major Emphasis on at Risk and Vulnerable Populations   Scientific Integrity and Ethical Issues in Publishing in the Field of HIV and AIDS   Sexual Transmission of Hepatitis C in Gay, Bisexual and other Men who have sex with Men, who are living with HIV   Street Children and Vulnerabilities to STD/AIDS: Building Bridges between Health Services and the Streets   Using Strategic Information for Advocacy. Policy Development and Affective Programming for most at-risk Young People (MARYP)   Where’s the Care? – Integrating Palliative Care into HIV Services

List of workshops designed by the Conference Coordinating and Programme Committees Access to Quality, Sustainable HIV Treatment: A Patients’ Rights Advocacy through Courts and Media   Amphetamines and HIV/AIDS: What is Known, What is Needed   Building Capacity to Conduct Population-Based Surveillance and Monitoring of HIV Drug Resistance and Associated Factors   Building Capacity to Set National Targets and Collect Data on Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care for People who Inject Drugs   Change your Countries Discriminatory Laws: How to Advocate for Removal of HIV-specific Travel and Resistance Restrictions   Criminalization: A Thorn in the Side of Effective Prevention, Treatment and Care Programming   From HIV to TB Activism: How Activism from the HIV Movement has Helped in the Development of Activism in Other Sectors   HIV Prevention Leadership for Policy Makers   HIV Reservoirs: What are the Strategies for HIV Eradication?   How to Do Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) in Populations at Risk   How to Integrate Drug Treatment and ART   How to Manage Suspicions of Second Line ART Failures in Developing Countriesv Motivational Interviewing for Service Providers: Get in Motion to Motivate Change   Publish or Perish for Junior Authors: Writing and Publishing Scientific Manuscripts on HIV/AIDS and Related Topics   Using Quality Improvement Methods to Strengthen HIV Care

Community Skills Development

These workshops provide the opportunity for HIV stakeholders to learn from evidence-based programmes of community based organizations.

List of workshops selected from the public submission Designing and Implementing Quality Control Protocol for Community Services for Vulnerable Groups   Exploiting the Potential of New Technologies for Online HIV/AIDS Outreach and Prevention for MSM: Engaging in Community-Based Behavioural Research to Produce Animations for Screen-Based Prevention on Social Networks, Mobile Phones and Mp3 Players   GIPA: Learning by Doing, A Practical Example   HIV Pathogenesis Update 2010: Understanding the Role of Immune Activation & Inflammation in HIV Infection   Honoring Life: Constructing the Most Effective HIV Prevention among People Injecting Drugs by Adding Overdose Prevention Work   How to Develop Proposals on Community Systems Strengthening for the GFATM   How to Map Vulnerability and Provide Services Effectively for Sex Workers, MSM and IDUs in Resource-limited Settings   How to Support your Adolescents? Sexuality, Disclosure, Adherence and Transition   Male Participation in Prevention of Vertical HIV Transmission Programmes: Mobilizing Men to Protect Their Partners and Children from HIV Infection and Access HIV Care and Treatment   Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders in HIV-Current Knowledge Base, Emerging Issues and Advocacy Needs for Clinicians, Treatment Educators and Counselors’   Observatoire de la Société Civile Comme Mécanisme de Veille de la Réponse Au VIH Dans le Contexte du Financement du Fond Mondial   Our Bodies, Our Rights: Young Women's Forum on SRHR   Positive Parenting: Building Capacities of Health Care Providers to Address Emerging Issues in Parenting Practical Tools: How Positive Women can get Funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

List of workshops designed by the conference coordinating and conference committee Advocating for Women-centered HIV Prevention Technologies and Environments   Ageing and HIV: Responding to the Challenge   Applying the Criminal Law to HIV Transmission: Is This What Women Really Need?   Best Practices in Documenting Human Rights Abuses   Beyond the Scoop: Skills Building for Journalists and CBOs/NGOs in Interpreting and Communicating Trial Results for New HIV Prevention Technologies   Building Capacity of the PLHIV to do Operations Research on HIV Prevention   Burnout Prevention for Social Workers   "Channels of Hope" for Faith and Secular Community Sensitization and Mobilization to Scale-up the Response to HIV   Community and Home-Based Care of Children Affected by HIV and AIDS: Models of Caregiver Support and Training   Community-led Structural Interventions   Safe Sex Skills and Knowledge Development among Men who have Sex with Men in Low and Middle Income Countries   Safer Feeding for HIV-Exposed Children: How to Integrate Infant Feeding into Community-Cased HIV Prevention Activities   Sero-difference: Experiences about Sex and Relationships   Social Marketing is More than Condom Promotion: Use of Social Marketing in HIV/AIDS Programmes to Facilitate Behavior Change, Action, and Community Mobilization Among Various Target Audiences   The Power of Participatory Communication Approaches: Amplifying Voices and Empowering People Affected By AIDS   Theatre of the Oppressed: Facilitated Arts-based Grassroots Public Debate on HIV-related Human Rights

Leadership and Accountability Skills Development

These workshops provide a platform to learn innovative skills, critical for an effective response to the HIV epidemic, for new and current leaders. Participants will also develop and or enhance their skills on assessing and measuring commitments and actions of leaders.

List of workshops selected from the public submission Challenging and Changing Drug Policy: Educating Stakeholders about Harm Reduction Based Policies in Eurasia   Developing an Accountability Framework for Civil Society Representatives Working on Global Health Issues   Friend or Foe? Partnering with Media for an Effective HIV/AIDS Response   Holding Leaders Accountable: Are Governments Fulfilling Their Commitments? A Discussion on how to Assess the Results and Start Improving the HIV/AIDS Response for Women   How to Create and Use Effective Video for Rights-Based HIV/AIDS Documentation and Advocacy: Strategies Learned from Intensive Trainings with Rights-based Advocates   Human Rights in HIV Programmes: What Community Leaders Need to Know and Do   "I want my rights now!" - A Toolkit for Young People to Advocate Successfully   Measuring Up: Training Pack for Civil Society Organizations Evaluating HIV and AIDS- related Advocacy   Palliative Care as a Human Right   Positive People Speaking in Public   Using the PLHIV Stigma Index Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia: An Opportunity for Those Already Implementing and Those Interested in Starting to Address Common Issues Arising from the Results of Research   Vital Voices Leadership Programme – Positive Leadership in Action   Wise Investment: Supporting CSO’s to Safeguard their Productivity

List of workshops designed by the conference coordinating and conference committee Building and working with Leadership of People who Use Drugs   Developing the Voice and Visibility of Women Living with HIV: From Isolation to Involvement   Keeping the Promise: Using Budget and Community Monitoring to Hold Governments Accountable for Universal Access   Leaders Dialogue   Scaling Up Key Programmes to Protect Human Rights   Tools for Challenging Human Rights Abuses Against People who Use Drugs   Towards Universal Access: Young People in Action   UNGASS Monitoring and Evaluation: How we can Improve the Involvement of Community Organizations