International Congress

THE TREATMENT OF HIV+ CHILDREN IN AFRICA

13 million AIDS orphans and almost 30 million adults infected with HIV-AIDS put to the test every day the very future and will to live of an entire continent. But the battle against AIDS can be won.

AIDS: a balance of the powers at play; successful initiatives; what is on the move on the African continent; what remains to be done. All these highlights in the International Conference that will take place in Rome, in the Campidoglio, on May, 19. DREAM, the most successful international anti-AIDS project in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa; the widest experiences in innovation; the major players active today on the great African continent, from the governments of countries most affected to European and worldwide governments and institutions engaged in the struggle, from the World Bank to WHO, are going to be the centre of the public meeting that will offer to the public opinion and the international press innovative proposals and news for a real turning point in the treatment of AIDS in the African continent, with particular attention to children.

Rome, 19 May 2006

Rome, Campidoglio, Sala della Protomoteca

from 09.00 to 12.00

Starting four years ago, the DREAM programme (Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition) is a holistic (education, prevention, and cure) response to AIDS, malaria, malnutrition, TB and other principal opportunistic diseases. Mozambique has been the first venue for what is today becoming a pan-African model strategy of great therapeutic efficacy, a model for its light structures and skill in the education of socio-sanitary staff and for its economic sustainability. Today Malawi, Guinea-Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Tanzania, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria set up other DREAM centres and made the programme a practicable path for the rest of the continent.

The principal movers in this programme, together with leading international authorities in the field, are meeting to post results so far attained and to project jointly a dream for Africa: ‘Children without AIDS’.

THE HEALTH MINISTERS OR THEIR REPRESENTATIVES OF SEVERAL NATIONS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (Angola, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea-Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Zambia) WILL BE PRESENT AT THE CONGRESS TO EVALUATE RESULTS ATTAINED BY THE PROGRAMME AND TO ANALYSE ITS COMMENCEMENT IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES