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The
African continent’s leading HIV/Aids researchers will
gather in Cape Town this week for a top-level international
conference to discuss new ways of dealing with the epidemic in
sub-Saharan Africa.
The second African conference on "Social Aspects of HIV/Aids
Research" will be held from May 9 to 12 at the Cape Town
International Convention Centre.
Hosted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), the four day
event is an initiative of a network of African scientists known as
the Social Aspects of Aids Research Alliance (Sahara).
"This resource network aims to support policy makers and programme
planners in the Sub-Saharan region to prioritise their spending on
HIV/Aids interventions that have been scientifically shown to
work," says Dr Olive Shisana of the HSRC.
Over 500 delegates from all over Africa are expected to attend the
conference, with the theme being, "Social Aspects of Access to Care
and Treatment".
Topics include access to care (for example, human rights as well as
drug, trade and economic impacts), critical issues (such as stigma,
orphans and nutrition and food security) and solutions (for example
HIV surveillance, cultural and community mobilisation as well as
the financing of Aids programmes).
According to conference chairman, Dr Dan Kaseje of the Tropical
Institute of Community Health in Kenya, the ideals of the Sahara
conference are in line with those of the New Partnership for
African Development (Nepad).
Keynote speakers include Dr Cheikh Niang of Senegal who will
provide HIV/Aids perspectives from West Africa; Mark Heywood of
Treatment Action Campaign who will talk on human rights issues in
six Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries; Dr
Olive Shisana and Leickness Simbayi on HIV prevalence among South
African children; Erich Buch on the role of research in achieving
Nepad goals; Emmanuel Ariga of Kenya and Bernard Diop of Senegal on
the impact of HIV/Aids on food security and nutrition; and Miriam
Were of Kenya on the financing of Aids programmes.
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