October 20 - 21

Budapest, Hungary

Conference agenda [word version]

Day 1: October 20
Day 1 moderator: Shari Turitz, Director of Programs, OSI Public Health Program
08:30	Registration [participant list]
09:00	Introductions
09:10	Presentation by the PHP Director (Francoise Girard)   Presentation of the PHP Strategic Framework PHP Human Rights in Patient Care Campaign
09:45	LAHI Program Highlights since September 2007 (Jonathan Cohen)   Trends in LAHI funding Key achievements Presentation of new LAHI Grants Database
11:15	Coffee break
11:45	Practitioner Guide Project (Tamar Ezer with Judy Overall and LAHI coordinators)   Trends in LAHI funding
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Putting human rights on the global AIDS agenda: OSI’s Human Rights and HIV/AIDS: Now More Than Ever Campaign (Ralf Jürgens and Jonathan Cohen)   Overview of the campaign and LAHI’s work at AIDS 2008 in Mexico City   Questions for plenary discussion o    What collective actions can the 600+ endorsing organizations take globally? o    How can we support endorsers to continue using the Declaration? o    How can we draw new constituencies into the campaign?   Break-out discussions by region o    Who from your region should be added to the current list of supporters? o    What collective action can the endorsing organizations take regionally/locally? o    What additional tools might be needed to support this action?   Report-back and concluding discussion
15:45	Coffee break
16:15	collaboration with Mental Health Initiative   Presentation of the Mental Health Initiative (Judith Klein) Discussion of potential collaboration with LAHI
17:30	Day 1 closing remarks (Shari Turitz)
18:30	Group Dinner
Day 2: October 21
Day 2 moderator: Francoise Girard, Director, OSI Public Health Program
09:00	Criminalization of HIV Transmission and Exposure: What Should LAHI Do?   Taking stock: where are we at the global, regional, and national level? What actions do we need to take to prevent criminalization of HIV transmission? What do we need in terms of tools and resources to assist this work? Who are the allies we need to involve?
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Looking Ahead to LAHI’s Impact (exercise led by Shari Turitz)   Group brainstorming: What overall impact do we want LAHI to have achieved in the next five years? Short break while facilitators group the responses by category Break-out discussion: How will we know we’ve achieved these impacts?  What are three measures of success? Report back and comment on each group’s ideas
13:00	Closing Remarks (Jonathan Cohen)
13:30	Lunch
18:00	Optional buffet dinner

Meeting material

10 reasons why criminalization of HIV exposure or transmission is bad public policy [view document]

Global strategy for the law and health initiative [view document]

Projects list for the law and health initiative [view document]

Community for All: MHI Program Strategy [view document]

List of Endorsers of the “Human Rights and HIV/AIDS: Now More Than Ever” Declaration [view document]

Practitioner Guides in Law and Health [view document]

Role Definitions [view document]

Participant Biographies [view document]