Global Citizens Summit 2009 - Global Citizen Summit 2009

"My work on HIV/AIDS over the past 22 years has convinced me that social mobilisation is a crucial part of responding to the epidemic. Without this our interventions are likely to fail. This citizen's summit will enable us to make progress in developing new and innovative responses. It is over due"

Prof Alan Whiteside

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Leonard Okello, Salil Shetty,Alloyce Orago of NACC and Brian Kagoro during the official opening of the conference

Civil society organizations, people's networks, PLHA networks, International Development Organizations, including Actionaid, Oxfam, Panos, APACHA, PAMOJA, AfriCASO, UNAIDS, welcome you to the first ever International Summit on Social Mobilization for Universal Access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. The summit is scheduled for May 27-29th, 2009, to be held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, in Nairobi, Kenya.

Participants in discussions at the conference

At a time when the world is witnessing the strengths as well as serious limitations of time bound projects in AIDS response, social mobilization has been observed as one of the best alternatives in reaching out to the communities and going beyond the time bound projects in order to get desired impact.

It is high time for the global AIDS response to seriously reflect on existing practices as well as alternatives especially in comprehensively curbing an epidemic that has been challenging broader development dynamics and demanding a combined response from different corners. The summit, in these contexts will seek to improve our understanding of the various social mobilisation experiences in an effort to scale up their application and maximize their impact to reach universal access. It will bring together a wide range of stakeholders who use participatory approaches, multi-sectoral mobilizations and other methods of social mobilisation to share their rich experiences that have proven to have results for community and social mobilization to end AIDS. It will explore radical options to mobilise the nations, test the nations, treat the nations and end aids. It will also explore the likely scenario of the global AIDS response in the context of increasing focus on climate change; food crisis; global financial crisis and agree urgent radical options for the course of action to reduce the cost of an AIDS response without undermining the quality of services.

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