Moving from Silos to Solidarity

AIDS 2016: Breakfast Satellite Session

Thursday, July 21, 2016  ♦  0700h-0830h
Durban International Conference Center  ♦  Session Rm 7
Durban 4001, South Africa

An invitation from  Amadou Diagne, Marsha Martin & Luc Armand Bodea to join

• AIDS 2016 Conference Local Co-Chair, Olive Shisana, ScD
• UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé
• US Congresswoman, Barbara Lee
• Office of Global AIDS Coordinator & Diplomacy, Chief Policy Officer, Cornelius Baker
• African Men for Sexual Health & Rights Executive Director, Kene Esom
• Coalition of African Lesbians Director, Dawn Cavanagh
• Society for AIDS in Africa Program Officer, Gordon Tambro
• Women Now Chair, Dazon Dixon Diallo
• THRIVE SS, Inc Co-Founder, Daniel Driffin
• Gilead Sciences, Inc, Sr. Director Community Engagement, Douglas Brooks
• Society for Women and AIDS in Africa Founder, Eka Esu Williams, PhD

…and others for a breakfast session to discuss work that still needs to be done to reduce the burden of HIV/AIDS on people of Africa and the Diaspora, to review and highlight best practices. The discussion will give particular attention to the importance of the African Diaspora coming together as a global community with working knowledge of the latest science, tools and technologies at this time in the HIV pandemic. Africa and African-descent communities around the world still have very high HIV incidence and prevalence, and the bio-psycho-socio-cultural competency required to build and launch an effective collective and comprehensive prevention, care and treatment response along with a robust research agenda shaped by Black people is urgently needed.

We have the knowledge and tools to end the global pandemic. Come to hear your colleagues discuss the importance of organizing and mobilizing across the globe to demand resources, access, equity, protection and rights.  It is up to all of us.

During the session the GNBPH Global Leadership Award will be given to the Honorable Michel Sidibé, Professor Olive Shisana, and Honorable Barbara Lee.

Satellite Session Co-Chairs:  Amadou Diagne, President, Atlantic Biomed
Marsha A. Martin, DSW, Director, GNBPH
Honorary Co-Chair: Luc Armand Bodea, Director, ICASA

GNBPH is a global network of Black people who have developed innovative approaches, homegrown strategies and novel ideas designed to impact the global pandemic. This session will highlight approaches that encourage cross silo collaboration, CSC; and implementation of evidence based solutions, EBS, in HIV.  GNBPH serves as a platform where Black people working in HIV worldwide learn, share and contribute to the global epidemic response. The satellite session will provide an opportunity to hear from leaders across disciplines with special emphasis on building bio-medical, socio-cultural and eco-geopolitical competencies and strategies. The goals of the session include: knowledge exchange, strategy review and framework development for cross silo collaboration.

Click here to download event flyer