4th Regional Session – Southern & Eastern Africa Global Biodiversity Forum Workshop on Health, Poverty and Conservation: Securing Africa’s Future: Biodiversity and Health – HIV/AIDS Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 9 - 11 June 2004

AGENDA

9 June, 14:00 – 15:30 Workshop Session 1
Linkages Between Biodiversity and Health and HIV/AIDS: Overview and Facts

This session will set the landscape for the workshop and will be divided into two sections. In the first, speakers will address the variety of linkages that exist between biodiversity and health, highlighting, in particular, the disease linkages that develop as a result of human interaction with livestock and wildlife, and the health implications of agricultural practices, land use, and resource management. In the second section speakers will focus on describing the nature and impact of HIV/AIDS as a health issue in order to establish its relationship to biodiversity conservation for later sessions. Speakers will provide basic information about the disease, prevention, and treatment in order to establish the groundwork for a dialogue.

• Group Introduction- ice breaker
• Overview of workshop objectives
• Expectations and framework of the agenda

Facilitator: Esther Mwaura, Patrick Muraguri

Speakers:

• Sean Southey, UNDP Equator Initiative, “Bio-diversity, Health, and the MDGs”
• Ngoni Chibukire, SAFAIDS,“Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in Sector Programs”
• Lucy Ng’ang’a, AIDS NGOs Network in East Africa,“What Are the Effects on the Ground: HIV/AIDS in Southern and East Africa”

9 June, 16:00 – 17:30 Workshop Session 2
“Breaking the Silence” Discussing the Stigma through Community Conversations

This session is designed to create an encouraging environment for dialogue about HIV/AIDS and its impact in the lives of workshop participants, their organizations, and the livelihoods of the local communities that they work with on biodiversity conservation. UNDP’s HIV/AIDS Response Team will lead this session utilizing its past experience in developing group dialogues about the disease to present activities and discussions that allow workshop participants to open up about their experiences with HIV/AIDS. This will be an opportunity for participants to become comfortable discussing the disease and sharing their feelings, thoughts, and experience with others.

Facilitator: Esther Mwaura, Patrick Muraguri

Speakers:

• Jabu Matsebula, UNDP HIV/AIDS Swaziland, “Community Conversations”
• Mpho Theodorah Babusi, Vikela Youth Protection Organization

10 June, 9:00 – 10:30 Workshop Session 3
Institutional Impact and Response

Facilitator: Esther Mwaura, Patrick Muraguri

Speakers:

• Mr. Daulos Mauambeta, Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi, “HIV/AIDS and Biodiversity Conservation Linkages”
• Ms. Lesley Greyling, Southern African Wildlife College, “Training Responses”

10 June, 11:00 – 12:30 Workshop Session 4
Natural Resource Management Impact and Response

Facilitator: Esther Mwaura, Patrick Muraguri

Speakers:

• Dr. Jane Dwasi, Organization for the Conservation of Natural Resources and the Combat of HIV/AIDS, “Natural Resource Management and Land Use”
• Gladman Chibememe, Chibememe Earth Healing Association, “Community Perspectives on HIV/AIDS and Natural Resource Management”
• Grace Masuku
• Christine Ninteretse

10 June, 14:00 – 15:30 Workshop Session 5
Break Out Session to Discuss Institutional and Natural Resource Management Impacts and Responses

Facilitator: Esther Mwaura, Patrick Muraguri

10 June, 15:30 – 16:00 Workshop Session 5
Tea break

10 June, 16:00 – 17:30 Workshop Session 6
The Way Forward

Facilitator: Esther Mwaura, Patrick Muraguri

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