Washington DC World AIDS Day Event
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"A Chance for Children: Making Pediatric HIV a Priority"
The BASICS Project would like to invite you to a World AIDS Day
event "A Chance for Children: Making Pediatric HIV a Priority"
at the National Press Club at 529 14th Street, Washington, DC on
Thursday, December 1st, 2005 from 8:30 - 11:00 AM.
We look forward to having you join us for a continental break-
fast followed by presentations and a discussion. Registration
will begin at 8:30 and the program will begin at 9:00 AM.
Featured speakers include Dr. Ernest Darkoh, Chairman of
BroadReach Healthcare, recently featured in the Rx for Survival
series on PBS; Rose Lungu, HIV/AIDS Work Place Coordinator for
the SHARe Program in Zambia; Mary Lyn Field-Nguer, Pediatric
HIV/AIDS Adviser to the BASICS Project, and others.
Speakers will highlight the current situation for infants and
children with HIV/AIDS in resource-constrained countries and to
discuss programmatic and technical approaches to addressing the
challenges of reaching these children with care and treatment
services.
In addition to BASICS, co-sponsors of this event include the
World Health Organization, John Snow, Inc., BroadReach Health-
care, the National Peace Corps Association, and Returned Peace
Corps Volunteers for International Health.
We hope you will be able to attend.
Please RSVP mailto:worldaidsday@basics.org before November 25th.
We will be sending out a formal invitation and detailed agenda
shortly.
Jennifer Mboyane
mailto:Jennifer_Mboyane@jsi.com
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The BASICS Project is a USAID contract to fight needless child-
hood deaths in the developing world. Supporting families and
communities, the contract will help expand effective child
health interventions like newborn health, vitamin A supplementa-
tion and other essential nutrition actions, immunization, pedi-
atric AIDS, the treatment of diarrhea and pneumonia, and malaria
control. The project, follow-on to BASICS II is called BASICS
and started in October 2004. It supports activities to increase
the use of child health and nutrition interventions by families,
communities and health systems.
BASICS' partners include: Management Sciences for Health (MSH),
John Snow Inc. (JSI), Academy for Educational Development (AED),
and Program for Applied Technology for Health (PATH), Save the
Children (SCF), and the Manoff Group, and TSL.