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Goal: This meeting aims to provide an opportunity ahead of the World Health Organization (WHO) planning meeting in early November on ART for prevention. This is an opportunity for human rights and treatment advocates to discuss and find common ground on the many issues and questions raised by ART for prevention in general and the mathematical model published in the Lancet in particular.

8:30 a.m. Registration

9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

Facilitator: Françoise Girard (Open Society Institute)

• Welcome to the meeting

• Background to this discussion

• Meeting goals and overview of the agenda

9:30 a.m. Panel Discussion: Universal HIV Testing and Immediate ART: The Model and Its Potential Application

Panelists: Joe Amon (Human Rights Watch), Ade Fakoya (International HIV/AIDS

Alliance), Ralf Jürgens, Michaela Clayton (AIDS & Rights Alliance of Southern Africa)

Moderator: Françoise Girard

• Presentation of the model

• Research related to the model

• Background and history of the debate

• Statement of the Johannesburg Civil Society Consultation on ART for Prevention

11:00 a.m. Break

11:30 a.m. Panel Discussion: Moving Towards Universal Access to Testing and Treatment

Panelists: Delme Cupido (Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa), Nikos Dedes (European AIDS Treatment Group), Jacqueline Bataringaya (International AIDS Society), Bactrin Killingo (International Treatment Preparedness Coalition)

Moderator: Jonathan Cohen (OSI)

• Human rights barriers to testing and treatment

• Systemic and financial barriers

• The importance of linking prevention to treatment

• The importance of early diagnosis

1:15 p.m. Lunch

2:15 p.m. Strategies for Reaching Universal Access to Testing and Treatment

Moderator: Françoise Girard

• Group work to develop a joint advocacy agenda related to issues raised by the panel

3:45 p.m. Break

4:15 p.m.Working groups report back and discussion in plenary

5:30 p.m. Close

7:00 p.m. Dinner at the Carlights Restaurant at the hotel

Facilitator: Robert Carr (International Council of AIDS Service Organizations)

9:00 a.m. Working Groups Report Back and Discussion in Plenary

10:00 a.m. Strategy Discussion

10:30 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. Group Work on Strategy and Research Agenda

12:30 p.m. Next Steps and Closing Comments

1:00 p.m. Close

7:00 p.m. Dinner at the Carlights Restaurant at the hotel