Restoring Urgency, Renewing Commitments
Throughout the HIV/AIDS epidemic, philanthropy has played a
strategic role in the response by fostering innovation, ensuring a focus
on the most marginalized, and fueling advocacy to scale up public and
private investment in critical HIV research, prevention, care, treatment
and human rights protections.
At this year's summit, as it does each year, FCAA will release its
latest research on the state of private funding for HIV globally over the
past year. While those numbers are still being finalized, we already know that private support
for HIV/AIDS related efforts in 2013 was at its lowest point in seven years.
While we have made significant progress in achieving ambitious goals to get 15 million people on
treatment by 2015, we now know that everyone who is infected should have access to treatment significantly raising the bar for our efforts. And even with the tools in hand to keep those with HIV
healthy and prevent new infections, more than two thirds of those infected have not achieved viral
suppression.
We know what to fund, we know where to invest. We know how to stop the epidemic, but
have not mustered the political will to do so. It's time to restore the lost sense of urgency and
renew commitments that will allow us to bend the curve of the epidemic toward its end.
Join 150 of your colleagues from leading private and public HIV funding organizations
around the world as we focus on the need for, and strategies to, reestablish the urgency of
funding HIV/AIDS work
Agenda Highlights:
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New opportunities to address and engage with a potential audience of US and
European funders responsible for disbursing $592 million in support of global HIV/AIDS
efforts in 2013. Network and engage your colleagues during the opening night reception.
The exclusive launch of FCAA's annual resource tracking report: Philanthropic Support to
Address HIV/AIDS in 2014
Plenary sessions will tackle the current landscape of private funding for HIV/AIDS, the
intersection of politics and HIV funding, and finally, the increasing urgency around HIV
programming for adolescents.
12 member-designed sessions focused on: access to treatment, advancing justice,
reaching MSM/transgender populations, and retooling the response through new
approaches and partners.
Three deep-dive opening sessions sponsored by current FCAA funder working groups
on: HIV in the U.S. South; the intersection of HIV and human rights; and,mothers &
children. Each of these sessions will feature a 90-minute funder discussion (open to all),
and a 90-minute panel presentation.
Learn more: www.fcaaids.org/2015Summit
AGENDA
DAY 1
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 12:00 PM
Issues in Focus – Opening Sessions
Focus on Women & Children
Focus on the U.S. South
Focus on Human Rights & HIV
12:30 – 2:00
Keynote Luncheon: The Politics of HIV
2:15 – 3:30
Concurrent Sessions 1 – Access to Treatment
- Investing in Communities: Linking Demand with Intellectual Property
Literacy & Advocacy for Sustained HIV Treatment Access. Organized by
the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC)
- Community-Based HIV Research: Blessed or Doomed? Organized by
Kaiser Permanente
3:45 – 5:15
Concurrent Sessions 2 – Advancing Justice
- Access to Justice Interventions to Address HIV: Building the Evidence
Base. Organized by the Law and Health Initiative, Public Health
Program, Open Society Foundations
- The Importance of Public Policy and Advocacy: How HIV/AIDS
Foundations & Grantees Advance Their Causes beyond the Usual
Suspects. Organized by Alliance for Justice.
5:15 – 7:00
Reception
DAY 2
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Registration/ Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30
Opening Plenary: The Landscape of Funding
10:45 - 12:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions 3 – Reaching MSM/Trans Populations
- Rapid Changes in the HIV Sector and Their Implications for Men Who
Have Sex with Men Worldwide: New Strategies for Funding Community.
Organized by the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) with
Sponsorship from the Levi Strauss Foundation.
- Get Your Black Up! Talking with black LGBTQ leaders in the HIV
movement about putting bodies on the line to end HIV. Organized by the
Ford Foundation and co-sponsored by the Elton John AIDS
Foundation and Arcus Foundation.
12:30 – 1:30
Networking Lunch
1:45 – 3:00
Concurrent Sessions 4 - Retooling the Response
- Media, Behaviour change, and HIV prevention Organized by the MTV
Staying Alive Foundation.
- Transforming the HIV/AIDS Environment: A Case Study. Organized by
the AIDS Foundation of Chicago
3:15 – 4:45
Closing Plenary: Seeking an AIDS Free Generation – Youth &
HIV
4:45 – 5:00
Closing
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ABOUT FCAA
Founded in 1987, the Funders Concerned About AIDS
(FCAA) mission is to mobilize the leadership, ideas, and
resources of funders to eradicate the global HIV/AIDS
pandemic and to address its social and economic
dimensions.
FCAA envisions a philanthropic sector that works
collaboratively, transparently, and urgently to ensure
focused and robust funding for:
- Evidence-based interventions in the treatment and prevention of HIV
infection;
- Advocacy, research, and exploration of new methods to hasten the end of
AIDS; and,
- Investments that address the social inequities, health disparities, and human
rights abuses that fueled the spread the epidemic.
In 2012 – our 25th year - FCAA developed a new strategic plan to expand and
strengthen the philanthropic response to AIDS. FCAA will work to grow the pool
of philanthropic resources focused on HIV/AIDS by working with key partners in
health and social justice philanthropy to identify points of leverage and
opportunities for synergy. FCAA will also continue to convene public and private
AIDS funders -- providing time, space, and resources -- to build a stronger
network of increasingly collaborative funders, utilizing a coordinated and datadriven investment approach to leverage the opportunities presently available and
to continue to identify new, efficient, and impactful approaches to end the AIDS
epidemic.
FCAA membership is comprised of U.S.- and E.U.-based private funders, including: The
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, the M.A.C AIDS Fund, Elton John
AIDS Foundation (U.S. and U.K.), Comic Relief, Aids Fonds, Levi Strauss Foundation
and ViiV Healthcare, among others. This important community was responsible for
disbursing $592 million in support for global HIV/AIDS efforts in 2013.
Learn more: www.fcaaids.org