Program

09.00 Arrival, coffee and tea

09.15 Welcome and introduction by Helena Zweifel, aidsfocus.ch

09.30–12.30

The global AIDS response

Inputs with Discussion

Dr Christoph Benn, Director Partnership, Communications, Resource and Mobilization, Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria: The future of the global AIDS response

Andreas Loebell, Policy Advisor, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC): Implications for SDC

Implications for NGOs

Inputs with Discussion

Robin Gorna, Executive Director, International AIDS Society (IAS): The future of the Global AIDS response. Implications for HIV professionals and Civil Society organisations

Florence Ajok Odoch, Manager TASO Mulago, AIDS Support Organisation (TASO), Uganda: Implication of funding trends on community based programmes

12.30 Lunch

Implications for NGOs (continued)

Sharonann Lynch, HIV/AIDS Policy Advior, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): Punishing success? Early signs of a retreat from commitment to HIV/AIDS care and treatment

Dr Stefan Germann, Director, Learning and Partnerships, World Vision International: Reaching the other half of children affected and living with HIV and AIDS by 2015

14.30 Coffee break

15. Workshops

Future of Global AIDS response - implications for Swiss NGOs: Conclusions, recommendations and steps to be taken

16.00 Plenary and Farewell

17.00 End of the conference

Organisation and Coordination

Helena Zweifel, aidsfocus.ch/ Medicus Mundi Switzerland

The conference is financially supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and World Vision Schweiz

Date: 14 April 2010

Vernue: Kornhausforum, Kornhausplatz 18, Bern, www.kornhaus.org