Comments on: The AIDS Conference Conundrum http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/the-aids-conference-conundrum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-aids-conference-conundrum Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Lyn van Rooyen http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/the-aids-conference-conundrum/#comment-189961 Lyn van Rooyen Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:32:43 +0000 http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=3437#comment-189961 You verbalise so many of my concerns so accurately!. I would really love to publish your report on our website at http://www.cabsa.org.za if you don’t mind. Many of the community based and larger organisations doing such wonderful work which Jennifer refers to are users of our site and will benefit from your report. We aim to be ‘knowledge intermediaries’, especially for the faith sector.

]]> By: Jennifer Lentfer http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/the-aids-conference-conundrum/#comment-189909 Jennifer Lentfer Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:28:57 +0000 http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=3437#comment-189909 I wonder of those 20,000 experts, how many have actual “on-the-ground” expertise? How many participants have cared for their dying neighbor and counseled a child who has lost a parent? Let me say, not enough.

A mapping exercise sponsored by UNICEF identified over 1,800 community-based organizations focused on orphans and vulnerable children in Malawi alone (Network of Organizations working with Vulnerable and Orphaned Children in Malawi, 2005). The myth of “no capacity” about small and local organizations in the HIV/AIDS discourse does not do justice to their efforts. Clearly these under-recognized and under-resourced folks have knowledge and expertise could be invaluable to the multi-billion dollar(!) fight against HIV and AIDS, but where were their voices?

Certainly the International AIDS Conference organizers have made great strides in recent years to include more participants from marginalized communities and developing nations, but how these participants’ voices are actually heard among the cacophony of such an event remains to be seen.

Thus, we have to ask—what is the cost to all of us when so many of the best minds and perspectives from the community-level are left out of navigating the paradox of universal access? This is where we clearly need all the help we can get.

Read more at: http://www.how-matters.org/2010/07/21/the-real-experts/

]]> By: Emilar Vushe http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/the-aids-conference-conundrum/#comment-189906 Emilar Vushe Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:45:30 +0000 http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=3437#comment-189906 Thanks Fungai for a well thought out article!

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