Sustainable Care and Support for Children Made Vulnerable and Orphaned by AIDS - May 5, 2003

8:30-9:00

Breakfast and Registration

9:00-9:10

Welcome

• Michael Merson (Yale University)

9:10-9:50

Overview
Chair: Carol Levine (Families and Health Care Project)

• Mark Connolly (UNICEF)
  "HIV/AIDS, Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children: The Crisis, Consequences, and Responses"
• John Williamson (USAID)
  "Overview of strategic Issues"

9:50 - 11:00

Models of Care and Support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: What We Know, What We Still Need to Know
Chair: Albina du Boisrouvray (Association François Xavier- Bagnoud)

• Moses Dombo (Family Health International)
  "Community-level Responses to Mitigate the Impact of AIDS on Children and Families"
• Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus (University of California Los Angeles)
  "Psychosocial Interventions: Intergenerational Impact of HIV on Families"
• Namposya Nampanya-Serpell (Save the Children)
  "Redefining Care and Support for Orphans: Elderly Care Givers - Victims or Vestiges of Hope"
• Sonya Giese (Children's Institute, University of Cape Town)
  "Care and Support for Children in the Context of HIV/AIDS - a South African Perspective"
• Edward Kaplan (Yale University)
  "How Blocking MTC Transmission Creates Orphans --Painful Choices with Limited Resources"

11:00-11:20

A Funder's Perspective
Chair: Shelley Geballe (CT Voices for Children)

• Bill Logue (The Logue Group)
  Attitudes and Latitudes of Philanthropic Organizations
• Christopher Gordon (NIMH)
  "NIMH Priority Areas"

11:20-12:30

Participant Reflections
Chair: Linda Sussman (USAID)

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-5:15

Directed Discussion (Includes a 15 min. refreshment break at 3:30 PM)
Co-Chairs: Shelley Geballe (CT Voices for Children) and Michael Merson (Yale University)

Questions to be addressed:

• Is there now a well-coordinated approach to the worldwide epidemic of children orphaned or made vulnerable by AIDS that links researchers, providers and funders worldwide?
• If yes, what roles might Yale and CIRA best play in assisting in this effort?
• If no, what components are missing? What is needed to address these missing components?
• To advance the field and bring our collective response to the scale necessary (given current and projected numbers of affected children), where might financial, intellectual (e.g., research), and other resources be most effectively deployed short-term? Longer-term?
• Is there something that could, and should, be done collectively by this group (in partnership with relevant others) to help foster and sustain an integrated effort to advance the field and bring to scale initiatives that help support and nurture the millions of children impacted by this epidemic (that complements but does not overlap with existing efforts)?

5:15-5:45

Closing Comments

• Mark Connolly (UNICEF)
• Sania Metzger (Casey Family Services)
• Michael Merson (Yale University)