Overview of reform efforts and success in increasing PLWHA participation

Michael TikiliCommunity Organizer

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Health GAP is…

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• An international AIDS activist organization dedicated to eliminating the barriers to lifesaving HIV treatment for everyone.

• A strong believer in direct action organizing and strategic policy making.

• Began with a series of beautifully choreographed direct actions targeting then VP and Pres. Candidate Al Gore for his role in preventing South Africa from importing generic, affordable medications.

Overview• Lifting of the

Travel Ban• Global Village• Technological

advances• Financial assistance

• AIDS activist inclusion

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Lifting of the HIV travel Ban-In 2009 President Obama lifted the ban on travel and immigration to the U.S. by individuals with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS .

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The Global Village• The Global Village is a diverse and vibrant space where community gathers

from all over the world to meet, share and learn from each other. It is a space for community to demonstrate the application of science and good leadership. It is also a space that invites conference participants to see how science translates into community action and intervention.

• Important aspects– Global Villages Sessions– Networking Zones– Main stage– Youth Pavilion– NGO and Market place booths

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Technological Advances• Conference Hubs

• 2012 Smart phone application

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Financial Assistance• 2012 accessible to people from resource-limited settings and communities • AIDS 2012 has selected more than 800 recipients of full and partial

conference scholarships from a pool of more than 10,000 applications

• At the direction of the CCC, the scoring process gives priority to HIV-positive people, people from resource-limited settings and communities, researchers, young people, women, community activists and civil society representatives.

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AIDS activist inclusion

• Activist Liaison

• Activist work space

• Positive lounge

Contact Info

Michael TikiliHealth GAP

Community Organizermichael@healthgap.org

Cell + 1 347 217 3030www.healthgap.org

www.treatAIDSendAIDS.org

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