ICAAP11ICAAP11a quick postmortema quick postmortem

What did we want from the conference?

Wish we had asked that question more emphatically a few months ago!!

Expectations

•Highlight need for focus (geographic, key pops, cities focus)

•Position MSM issues at the centre of the Asian response

•Need for innovation - community based testing and treatment

•Smarter investments, highlight diminishing external financing and need to move towards innovative financing

ICAAP11, Leadership Forum, Lancet, Community consultations pre

conference…..

Key Stats

Plenary: 3Symposiums: 26

Satellite Sessions: 57Skills Building Workshops: 45

Oral sessions: 30E-poster Discussion sessions: 23

Participants: over 3800 delegates

Countries represented: over 74 Countries

 

Presentation Statistics 

Symposium presentations: 91Satellite presentations: 220

Skills Building workshops: 34Oral Presentations: 144

E-Poster Discussions: 51 e-posters discussed E-Posters

displayed: 913 uploaded Over 500 Presentations viewed

Pleasant surprise!

Three Zeroes

The good, bad and ugly

• Excellent participation, dynamics and engagement of key stakeholders

• Significant number of ‘new’ participants

• Excellent media coverage

• Excellent use of technology

• Too many sessions

• NATO - So what?

• Poor accountability and follow up systems

Pulse….• HIV is still relevant and should not be left out of the post

2015 agenda

• Broad consensus on need for greater focus – both geographical and emphasis on key populations

• Need for scaling up treatment and centrality of community in testing and treatment scale up

• Recognition of the changing financial landscape and need for prioritization and moving beyond dependency

• Recognition of need for human rights centered responses and need to address stigma discrimination issues

• Do regional conferences in current environment have an impact?

• What do conferences really aim to achieve? Are there different business models that can be explored?

• What was the transaction cost and is this a good investment?

• How can we make the most of what we have?

So, what does all this mean?