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Final report of the International Seminar
(5-6 June 1998) on Access to Treatment 
for HIV in Developing Countries

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Index

About the UK NGO AIDS Consortium

Consensus Statement

Action Points

Introduction and Background to the International Seminar

Speaker Presentations

• Realities of access to treatment: perspective of a person living with HIV

David Chipanta, Network of African People with HIV/AIDS (NAP+), Zambia
• Access to ARV treatments and requirements from the health care system

Dr. Rachel Baggaley, World Health Organisation
• Ethics of drug trials in developing countries

Dr. Philippa Musoke Mudido, Makerere Hospital, Uganda
• Realities of care in a low resource environment

Kasech Mussa, Medical Missionaries of Mary, Ethiopia
• Providing wider access to HIV-related drugs in developing countries: UNAIDS' four pilot projects

Dr. Joseph Saba, UNAIDS
• Two informal presentations from participants

Ben Plumley, Glaxo Wellcome, UK
Jorge Saavedra, Mexico
• French proposal for an international solidarity fund

Eric Chevallier, Government of France
• Learning from experience: TB and HIV

Dr. Anton Pozniak, Kings College Hospital, UK
• Essential drugs and the impact of choices

Dr. Richard Laing, Boston School of Public Health, USA
• A human rights and constitutional legal approach to access to treatment

Dr. Victor Croquer, Citizen's Action Against AIDS (ACCSI), Venezuela
• Making choices for treatment

Dr. Hilary Curtis, British Medical Association (BMA) Foundation for AIDS, UK
• Learning from experience: the role of palliative medicine in the management of terminal HIV disease

Dr. Anne Merriman, Hospice Uganda
• End of life issues

Ian Kramer, UK Coalition of People Living with HIV/AIDS

Reports from the Five Theme Groups

Group 1: The relationship of treatments and drugs to the concept of care.

Group 2: The current health care systems (government, non-profit and private sector) and how these relate to care for people with HIV/AIDS.

Group 3: The differences and similarities between community development principles and current treatment activism strategies.

Group 4: Learning from the experience of other diseases and essential drugs strategies.

Group 5: The relationship of treatment and drugs to the links between care and  prevention and public health issues.

Links

Organisations represented at the International Seminar

Other HIV/AIDS organisations and sites