Technical Consultation Materials
AIDSTAR-One hosts a range of technical consultations in conjunction with USAID and other U.S. Government Agencies designed to enhance the U.S. Government's response to the HIV pandemic.
Click on the following links for materials coming out of technical consultation, including presentations, photos, and summary reports.
PEPFAR Expert Meeting on Post-Rape Care for Children in Primary Health Centers that Provide HIV Care
April 2012, Washington, DC- This meeting, hosted by the PEPFAR Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) and Gender Technical Working Groups, focused on the development of technical considerations for the delivery of post-rape care for persons under the age of 18 in primary health care to inform work in PEPFAR specifically, and, more broadly, the work of other partners and implementers.
February 2012, South Africa - This regional workshop, funded by PEPFAR's most-at-risk populations technical working group and supported by CDC and USAID, brought together 150 participants from 22 African countries to provide a forum to disseminate the 2011 PEPFAR Technical Guidance for Combination Prevention for MSM. This venue also allowed implementers to share state-of-the art knowledge on relevant topics in HIV/AIDS prevention among MSM for practitioners, health service managers, civil society and community.
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The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief PMTCT/Pediatric Technical Working Group and the United States Agency for International Development’s Africa Bureau hosted a field-driven learning meeting for U.S. government staff and key African partners from February 7-10, 2012, in Gaborone, Botswana. The consultation was held in response to calls from practitioners, government officials, and programmers to share knowledge, experience, and resources on how to best care for the increasing numbers of perinatally infected children surviving to adolescence and adulthood.
December 2011, Ethiopia - At the 16th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), PEPFAR, UNAIDS, and WHO collaborated on several key events in support of VMMC for HIV prevention, including a joint PEPFAR/UNAIDS/WHO meeting on accelerating scale-up; a PEPFAR/UNAIDS satellite session on the cost, impact and challenges of accelerated scale-up; and a press conference to launch the five-year action framework for accelerated access to VMMC.
November 2011, Ethiopia - This field-driven learning technical consultation—hosted by the PEPFAR Technical Working Groups (TWGs) for Care and Support, PMTCT, Pediatric Treatment, OVC, and Nutrition—focused on sharing promising practices and approaches to integrating services along the continuum of care for mothers, infants, and young children.
June 2011, Washington, DC - Together with partners from United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS, the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Ministries of Health of Swaziland, Botswana, and South Africa, the Male Circumcision Technical Working Group for PEPFAR premiered a short film on voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention at the National Press Club.
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April 2011, Thailand - AIDSTAR-One organized this technical consultation to present and review the use of HIV rapid tests, focusing on program successes, challenges, and barriers.
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April 2011, Namibia - More than 80 participants representing fourteen countries joined multilateral donors and organizations to share approaches to alcohol-related HIV prevention programs in Eastern and Southern Africa.
March 2011, Washington, DC - Participants at this meeting shared FP/HIV/MNCH integration experiences, identified research priorities for expanding the evidence base, outlined facilitating factors for integration and circumstances under which integration is likely to maximize outcomes, and discussed strategies for strengthening integration policies and translating research findings into practice.
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March 2011, Caribbean - This summit provided a forum for participants to discuss HIV programming for most-at-risk populations and other vulnerable populations in the Caribbean region.
February 2011, Ghana - Seventy participants from 11 countries with mixed epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa, members of the PEPFAR Technical Working Groups (TWGs), and participants from other multilateral or partner organizations participated in this technical consultation to share promising practices for resource allocation and HIV prevention programming within mixed epidemics.
November 2010, Mozambique - Responding to substantial demand for discussion around linkages to and retention in HIV care, AIDSTAR-One and the PEPFAR HIV Care and Support Technical Working Group coordinated this consultation for participants to address opportunities and challenges, share emerging practices, and identify country-specific next steps for strengthening linkage and retention in key services.
September 2010, South Africa - This three-day meeting brought together 117 health professionals from 14 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa and international experts from Europe and North America to advance knowledge and to share promising experiences and communication materials for adolescent and adult voluntary medical male circumcision in three key areas: demand creation, client counseling, and advocacy.
May 2010, Washington, DC - At this consultation, country delegates along with invited research, program, and gender-based violence experts, exchanged recent research findings, promising practices, and emerging approaches.
May 2010, Dominican Republic - This technical consultation addressed maintaining and increasing access to quality antiretroviral therapy (ART) services in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
December 2009, Guatemala - The purpose of the meeting was to share evidence and program experiences to inform policies, develop effective strategies, and improve HIV programming for most-at-risk populations (MARPs) in Latin America.
November 2009, Kenya - AIDSTAR-One, in collaboration with the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Technical Working Group on Counseling and Testing, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), convened a technical consultation to identify key features of HBHTC programs, challenges and strategic approaches, lessons learned, and suggestions for new and ongoing HBHTC programs.
October 2009, South Africa - This technical consultation focused on strategies to support the expansion of gender integration into United States Government programs.
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February 2009, India - This meeting centered on a discussion of essential program dimensions that must be part of any effort to reach MARPS, including: measurement approaches, enabling environment, capacity building, a minimum package of prevention services, scaling-up the coverage, quality and intensity of prevention activities and monitoring and evaluation.
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October 2008, Washington, DC - This technical consultation on multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships (MCP) convened researchers, US Government representatives, and program implementers to address the role of MCP in fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemics of Southern Africa.