Meeting Accountabilities to Women and Girls in the context of AIDS: what will it take to reach commitments to Beijing, Universal Access, UNGASS and the MDGs?
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
Friday, 5 March, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
UN Temporary North Lawn Building, conference room C
On Friday 5 March from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m., the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) is hosting a roundtable discussion related to the need to dramatically improve national responses to AIDS for women and girls at national and community levels.
The session will be moderated Geeta Rao Gupta, President of International Centre for Research on Women, and will include the following discussants: Bafana Khumalo, Co-Director of Sonke Gender Justice, South Africa; H.E. Mariam Mwaffisi (To be confirmed),Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Community Development, Gender and Children, Tanzania; Nduku Kilonzo, Director of Liverpool VCT, Care & Treatment, Kenya; Rathi Ramanathan, Policy Officer of Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers and NGO Delegate to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, Thailand; and Zeda Rosenberg, CEO of International Partnership for Microbicides. Nazneen Damji, Co-Chair of the GCWA Steering Committee and Programme Specialist, Gender and HIV/AIDS at UNIFEM, will introduce the event.
In looking beyond the UNGASS Declaration to AIDS to the Millennium Development Goals and the Beijing Declaration, this panel will explore how to build greater commitment to addressing structural issues and drivers as well as better services and programming by linking MDGs 3, 4, 5 and 6.
NOTE: Access to the UN Temporary North Lawn Building (TNLB) requires a UN pass. Please read important information regarding registration procedures at the end of this document
DISCUSSANTS
Geeta Rao Gupta - Moderator
Geeta Rao Gupta has been President of ICRW since 1997. Prior to becoming President, she held a number of positions with ICRW, including consultant, researcher and officer. She is frequently consulted on issues related to AIDS prevention and women’s vulnerability to HIV and is a dynamic advocate for women’s economic and social empowerment to fight disease, poverty and hunger. Rao Gupta currently serves as co-convener of the Social Drivers Working Group of aids2031, an international initiative commissioned by UNAIDS to chart a course for a global response to AIDS over the next twenty-five years. She is a member of the Moriah Fund Program Board and a member of the Board of Advisors for both the Nike Foundation and the Global Health Corps.
Nduku Kilonzo
Dr. Nduku Kilonzo (PhD) is the Director of Liverpool VCT, Care & Treatment (LVCT), an indigenous Kenyan NGO providing leadership in HIV prevention, care and treatment and sexual and reproductive health policy reforms and innovative interventions. Nduku has experience in policy reforms advocacy, programming and service delivery. She has made significant contributions to Kenya’s National HIV testing and counselling (HTC) and her research has provided evidence for integrated public health post rape care services. She is Secretariat to Kenya’s HTC Technical Working Group, a member of the Gender and Rights Advisory Panel of the WHO and of the Coordinating Group of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative. She has been Technical Advisor to WHO and published on sexual violence and gender issues.
Bafana Khumalo
Bafana Khumalo is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Sonke Gender Justice Network, a South African NGO focused on gender, HIV/AIDS and human rights. Bafana manages a number of projects including work to address the HIV vulnerabilities of migrant farm workers, improve child security in rural communities, and a SADC wide project aimed at mainstreaming gender into HIV/AIDS initiatives. He has been appointed by Parliament as a Commissioner of the National Commission on Gender Equality from 2000-2011. Beforehand, he was a pastor and director of the Lobethal Lutheran Conference Centre. He has both a bachelors and master’s degree in theology from the University of Natal. Together with Sonke Co-Director Dean Peacock, he was awarded Men’s Health Magazine “Best Man” Award in 2007.
H.E. Mariam Mwaffisi (To be confirmed)
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Community Development, Gender and Children, Tanzania
Rathi Ramanathan
Rathi Ramanathan, feminist and health rights activist, has been advocating issues around sexual and reproductive health and rights including HIV at the national, regional and international levels for the last seven years. Currently the policy officer of Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers, Rathi also provides gender programming support to the Seven Sisters, the Coalition of Asia Pacific Regional Networks on HIV/AIDS based in Bangkok. Rathi is the NGO Delegate (Asia Pacific) for the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board. Rathi was a member of the multi-stakeholder Civil Society Support Mechanism’s Asia Pacific Support Group (CSSM-APSG) to the 2008 United National General Assembly High Level Meeting HIV/AIDS Review which coordinated the Asia Pacific caucus, strategizing and building capacity for the 2010 Universal Access Review.
Zeda Rosenberg
Dr. Zeda Rosenberg is founder and CEO of the International Partnership for Microbicides, a non-profit product development partnership created to prevent HIV transmission by accelerating the development and availability of safe and effective microbicides for women in developing countries. IPM establishes collaborations that lead to fast-tracked development of promising HIV drugs as microbicides. Previously, Dr. Rosenberg was Scientific Director for the HIV Prevention Trials Network at Family Health International and Senior Scientist at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. She received her bachelor’s degree in biology and mathematics from Rutgers University, and her master’s degree in epidemiology and doctoral degree in microbiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.
ACCREDITATIONS
Access to the UN Temporary North Lawn Building (TNLB) requires a UN pass. Special events tags (SETs) will be required to obtain access to the Temporary North Lawn Building (46th street/1st avenue entrance), including for pre-registered NGOs with grounds passes with photo IDs. SETs will be valid to attend specific events in the TNLB.
Please register with the GCWA Secretariat to reserve a SET by emailing info@womenandaids.net by Monday 1 March indicating your name and organization. The SETs will be distributed prior to the event at a table located in the GA/Visitor's lobby (46th street/1st avenue, after the Security line).
Please allow sufficient time to clear security in the UN building.
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