The ICASA 2011 conference heard that more work needed to be done with key affected populations including injecting drug users and those involved in sex work. IFRC.
By Kefilwe Batsalelwang in Ethiopia
It’s been 30 years since the first case of AIDS was detected, and the The 16th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA), discussed innovative ideas and strategies to tackle the disease among key affected populations. Based around the theme ‘Own, Scale-up and Sustain’, the conference takes place at a pivotal time, and urges African leaders, partners and the communities involved in prevention and treatment to support the most effective response to the global pandemic.
Welcoming nearly 10,000 delegates to the conference Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, said it was time for African countries to increase their efforts and build on the successes of the past; to turn the tide of the epidemic through greater containment and lower infections.
“This year’s theme is a particularly fitting one at this critical time,” he said. “Against the backdrop of growing global economic uncertainty, it is vital that African countries develop innovative and sustainable strategies for mobilizing new resources – human, intellectual and material – with a view to fortifying and sustaining our response to the epidemic over the coming years.” He said this was a unique opportunity to propse ‘African solutions’ to a worldwide problem.
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