PHA-Exchange> Upcoming workshop in Paris - Development and HIV

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http://www.hiv-development.org/text/cicred/2004survey.htm.



WORKSHOP TO BE HELD IN PARIS IN SEPTEMBER 2004 

How can Development Strategies strengthen policies and programmes
against HIV/AIDS? Exploring the inter-relations between Development,
Spatial Mobility and HIV/AIDS.

 The issue

The most common approach to the HIV/AIDS epidemics is through a health
paradigm which encompasses from the immediate risk of HIV infection
through counselling, care, treatment  to ultimate death. Most of the
present prevention, treatment and care and support strategies are the
direct consequence of this health perspective and its logical outcome.

 However, it is clear that in most countries, health strategies alone
have not been able to stop the epidemics and it is necessary to explore
other strategies which could complement and reinforce the health based
ones. From this perspective, another way to complement the health
strategies in approaching the HIV/AIDS epidemics is through a
development paradigm. Development activities on one hand and
differences in levels of development between sub-national areas,
countries and regions on the other, play a significant role in the
background of the epidemics through creating and modifying
vulnerabilities of populations which can lead to their exposure to the
risk of infection. For example, rural poverty can lead farmers to sell
their blood in high risk conditions or to migrate seasonally to cities
to find jobs; transborder formalities result in truck drivers idling
for days at border crossings attracting numerous sex workers, etc.

 The Objective

Inter-relations between development and HIV/AIDS are complex and still
little understood or studied. The benefit of gaining a better
understanding of these inter-relations is that development activities
are generated by macro socio-economic policy and programme decisions.
Furthermore, socio-economic policies and programmes which result
inadvertently in creating conditions favouring the spread of HIV can be
identified through research and, if necessary modified, or perhaps,
even prevented.

 One of the most important linkages between development and HIV/AIDS
occurs through mobility systems. Migration is but one aspect of a
mobility system which broadly encompasses not only the movements of
people, but also, from the HIV epidemic perspective,  their interface
with their sending areas, points of transit and receiving areas. The
systems can operate at various scales: sub-national, national or
regional (e.g. Caribbean, Southern Africa or South-East Asia). What is
important for action is to identify the systems and its key components
and analyse its dynamics. 

 Development                      Mobility systems                     
 HIV/AIDS

 The objective of this project is to start a process through which one
will first find out what has been already done, then review the present
state of knowledge through a survey and synthesize the most important
and potentially promising efforts from a policy, programme and research
perspective. The authors of the best efforts will be selected and
brought together at a meeting to discuss their implications for both
AIDS programmes and development strategies  as well as highlight the
crucial directions for the future. The results will be brought to the
attention of decision-makers and funders in order to integrate them
into activities and support action oriented research. 

 The Action

Researchers working on the above inter-relations and interested in
participating are invited to complete the attached questionnaire and
return it to CICRED (cicred at cicred.org) by Monday 16 February 2004.
Based on the results of the selection, the organizers are ready to
cover the costs for about ten researchers from Southern institutions to
participate in the workshop. It is however expected that for the
researchers selected from Northern institutions, their institutions
would cover the costs of their participation in the workshop. 

 The Organizers 

This workshop is co-sponsored and organized by CICRED and UNDP South
East Asia HIV and Development Programme (SEAHIV) in order to promote
and accelerate South-South and North-South exchange.

 With best regards,

 Jacques du Guerny                   Lee-Nah Hsu                
Philippe Collomb

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