Seventh Annual President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Track 1.0 ART Program Meeting

Mövenpick Royal Palm Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, August 4-6, 2009

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Tuesday August 4: Track 1.0 ART Program Updates and Achievements

Moderator: Tedd Ellerbrock, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

8:45 – 9:00 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Larry Andre, Charge d’Affaires, United States Embassy

9:00 – 9:30 AM: The Latest Treatment Numbers and Transition Highlights

• Track 1.0 ART Program Updates and Achievements--Tedd Ellerbrock, CDC

9:15 – 10:30 AM: ART Program Updates by USG Multinational ART Implementing Partners

• ICAP Program Update—David Hoos, ICAP Columbia
• Program Update from Harvard PEPFAR—Phyllis Kanki, Harvard University
• Updates from the DoD PEPFAR Program— Isaiah Tanui, Dept. of Defense

10:45 – 12:00 Noon: ART Program Updates by USG Multinational ART Implementing Partners (continued)

• Update on FHI-supported ART Services in Resource Limited Settings—Philippe Chiliade, Family Health International
• Project HEART: Expanding Access, Extending Lives— Denis Tindyebwa, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AID Foundation (EGPAF)
• AIDSRelief Program Updates—Robb Sheneberger, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland

1:00–5:00 PM: Track 1.0 ART Program Transition to Local Partners

Moderator: Rafi Morales, Health Resources Services Administration

• 1:00 – 1:30 PM Transition Guidance from Health and Human Services, Rafi Morales, Health Resources Services Administration

Highlighted Strategies from the Field

• Transition Plans to Build a Sustainable Future: Opportunities, Risks and Challenges—Nancy Fitch, EGPAF Mozambique
• From Vision to Action: Empowering Local Partners to Deliver Sustainable Care —Michele Broemmelsiek and Ruth Stark, Catholic Relief Services

• Building Capacity and Ensuring Quality: A Rational Approach to Track 1.0 Transition—Thomas Hardy, ICAP Columbia
• Harvard Transition to Local Partners—Ernest Ekong, Ria Madison, Guerino Chalamilla, Harvard University
• Working with Partners: Focus on Long ­Term Sustainability— Tiffany Hamm, Dept. of Defense
• FHI Approaches to Exit Strategies—Philippe Chiliade, Family Health International

Wednesday August 5: CrossCutting Issues for Sustainable Programs

Morning Session Moderator: Thomas Finkbeiner, CDC Tanzania

• 8:30 – 9:00 AM Using Costing and Modeling to Improve Treatment Program Planning - Charles Holmes, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, PEPFAR

• 9:00 – 9:45 AM The Tanzania Partnership for Sustainability - Fatma Mrisho, Executive Chairman, Tanzania AIDS Commission, Roland Swai, Director, Programme Manager, National AIDS Control Program

10:00 – 11:30 AM Program Innovations in Clinical Quality

• From Aggregate Indicators to Impacting Patients: Data Use to Inform Treatment and Improve Care—Ian Wanyeki, Futures Group International
• EGPAF Project HEART: Program Innovations in Clinical Quality—Joseph Essombo, EGPAF Cote d’Ivoire
• From HIVQUAL to HEALTHQUAL: Maintaining the Momentum for Improvement—Bruce D. Agins, HIVQUAL International
• Quality Improvement and Operational Research in Tanzania, Botswana and Nigeria—Guerino Chalamilla, Harvard Tanzania
• Use of Standards of Care to Improve the Quality of Care—Veronicah Mugisha, ICAP Rwanda
• The Role of Disclosure and Psychosocial Support in Pediatric Care and Treatment in Kericho, Kenya —Jonah Maswai, South Rift Valley PEPFAR Program

Concurrent Working Sessions on ART Program Transition and Sustainability Issues

Coordinator: Janna Brooks, CDC
12:30 – 3:15 PM

• Systems for Sustaining Clinical Quality - Room Kivukoni 1
• Capacity Building Strategies for Developing Local Partners: Governance, Management & Finance - Room Kivukoni 2
• Monitoring and Evaluation Strategies for the Transition - Room Kivukoni 3
• Issues and Ideas for Enhancing Cost Efficiencies of ART Programs - Room Kivukoni 4

3:30-4:30 PM: Question & Answer Conference Session with Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

Moderator: Charles Holmes, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator.  Conducted by phone.

Thursday August 6: Making the Transition and Strengthening Health Systems

Moderator: Eunice Mmari, CDC Tanzania
Report Back Session from Working Groups

• Systems for Sustaining Clinical Quality
• Capacity Building Strategies for Developing Local Partners: Governance, Management & Finance
• Monitoring and Evaluation Strategies for the Transition
• Issues and Ideas for Enhancing Cost Efficiencies of ART Programs

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Program Innovations Supporting Health Systems Sustainability

• Satellite Rollout, Task Shifting and Lab Capacity Building in Harvard PEPFAR—Patricia Burns and Toyin Jolayemi, Harvard
• Strengthening Health Systems through Laboratory Support and Quality Management: An Innovative Approach—Jeroen Van’t Pad Bosch, EGPAF Tanzania
• Nursing Initiatives that Support Health System Strengthening— Tshiwela Neluheni, ICAP South Africa
• Health Systems Sustainability: Perspectives from AIDSRelief—Pat Bass, Futures Group International and Herby Derenoncourt, Catholic Relief Services
• Laboratory Support: Innovations in Support of Health Systems—Wafaa ElSadr, Columbia
• An Assessment of Project HEART in Cote d'' Ivoire, Tanzania, and Zambia: Lessons for Program Improvement—Anthony Tanoh, EGPAF Cote d’Ivoire