Agenda

8:30 – 9:40: Opening of the Symposium

Chair:  Karthi Govender of ACCORD

          Opening-Pravina Makan-Lakha, ACCORD

          Welcome – Karthi Govender of ACCORD

          Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Gender, and HIV/AIDS: Frontiers for USAID – Ajit Joshi, USAID

          Introduction to Symposium – Sam Samarasinghe, Tulane

          Participant Introductions – Pravina Makan-Lakha, ACCORD        

Introductions

Facilitators: Pravina Makan-Lakha, ACCORD and Colleen McGinn, Tulane

9:40 – 10:45: Session 1 --  Overview of HIV/AIDS and Conflict-Affected Populations

Chair: Sam Samarasinghe, Tulane

          Gender Based Experiences in Preventing and Coping with HIV/AIDS in Post Conflict Sub-Saharan Africa  --   Millicent Malaza-Debose, Save Africa

         HIV/AIDS, Conflict and Reconstruction in Sub-Saharan Africa --  Manuel Carballo, ICMH

         Common Ground: Themes from Participants’ Writings – Colleen McGinn, Tulane and Pravina Makan-Lakha, ACCORD

         Plenary discussion

Summary

Wrap-up

11:15 – 12:15: Session 2 – Overcoming the Challenges: Living with AIDS, Living with War

Chair: Susan Kajura, World Learning (Uganda)

          Participant Panel:

          Life Story: Living with AIDS, Asunta Wagura, Kenya Network of Women with AIDS

          Life Story: Living with War, Claudine Muyala Tayaye Bibi, University of Kinshasa

          Plenary discussion

Summary

Wrap-up

12:15 – 12:25  Introduction to Session 3

Pravina Makan-Lakha, ACCORD and Colleen McGinn, Tulane

1:25 – 2:45: Session 3 -- From Victims to Advocates: Women’s Struggles Against HIV/AIDS and Violence

Introduction – Sam Samarasinghe, Tulane

Plenary Chair: Asunta Wagura, Kenya Network of Women with AIDS

          Small Group Activity

          Discussion

Wrap up

3:15 – 4:30: Session 4 – HIV/AIDS, Conflict, and Vulnerable Populations: Case Studies

Chair: Nelly Ntuli, South African Medical Research Council

          Participant Panel

          HIV/AIDS and Refugees, Nsama Chikwanka, Society for Women and AIDS in Zambia

          Caring for Orphans, Dorothy Gatea Wibaya, Presbyterian Church of Rwanda AIDS Project

          Plenary discussion

4:30-5:15:  Session 5 HIV//AIDS Programs for Militaries, Ex-Combatants and Their Families and Communities

5:15 – 5:30  Day One Wrap-Up

Closing and Summary of Consensus

8:45 – 9:00: Introduction to Day Two

9:00 – 10:00: Session 6 – Health Care in Post-Conflict Environments

Chair: Joseph Ntaganira, National University of Rwanda

          Participant Panel

          Rebuilding Public Health Systems in Post-Conflict Contexts, Daraus Bukenya, African Medical and Research Foundation (Tanzania)

          Psychosocial Services for Survivors of Violence, Beatrice Murunga, Map International (Kenya)

          Plenary discussion

10:00 – 10:10: Introduction to Session 7  

Pravina Makan-Lakha, ACCORD and Colleen McGinn, Tulane

10:40 – 12:00: Session 7 – Preventing HIV/AIDS in Post-Conflict African Societies

Plenary Chair: Paul Ntulya, ACCORD

          Small Group Activity

12:00 – 12:10: Introduction to Session 8

Pravina Makan-Lakha, ACCORD and Colleen McGinn, Tulane

1:00 – 2:30: Session 8 – Coping with HIV/AIDS in Post-Conflict African Societies

2:30 – 3:30: Session 9 – Health as a Bridge to Peace

Chair: Airah Schikwambi, Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services

          Participant Panel

          Health and Peacebuilding Case Study, Mary Balikungeri, Polyclinic of Hope (Rwanda)

          Health and Peacebuilding Case Study, Caroline Odongo Turyatemba, Joint Clinical Research Center (Uganda)

          Plenary discussion

3:30 – 3:40: Introduction to Session 10--  

Pravina Makan-Lakha, ACCORD and Colleen McGinn, Tulane

4:10 – 5:30:  Session 10 – Empowering Women in Post-Conflict Africa

Chair: Sam Samarasinghe, Tulane University

          Discussion

5:30 – 5:45: Day Two Wrap-Up

Consensus and Close

8:00 – 8:15: Introduction to Day Three

8:15 – 9:15: Session 11 – Lessons Learned and Issues for Consideration by Practitioners

9:15 – 10:15:  Session 12 – Lessons Learned and Issues for Consideration by Policymakers

Chair: Sam Samarasinghe, Tulane University          

          Dialogue

10:45 – 11:45: Session 13: Lessons Learned and Issues for Consideration by the International Community

Chair: Sam Samarasinghe, Tulane University

          Dialogue

11:45 – 1:00:  Symposium Closing

         Durban Declaration: A Statement on Consensus

         Closing Remarks-Vasu Gounden, ACCORD

Central Africa Group: Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazaville, Rwanda, Burundi

Facilitator: Manuel Carballo, ICMH

(This group will use French as its primary language.  If you need to be in an English-speaking group instead, please join Group 2.)

Eastern Africa Group: Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania

Facilitator: Pravina Makan-Lakha, ACCORD

Southern Africa Group: Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia

Facilitator: Colleen McGinn, Tulane