Meeting

At this meeting, presenters described the long-term trajectory for the global AIDS pandemic; why the problem is critically important to the U.S. and to highly affected countries; and strategies for how the U.S. and other donor countries can innovatively respond to the challenge through institutional and human resource capacity building.

During the closed portions of the committee meeting, the committee completed the bias and conflict-of-interest discussion; assessed committee composition; became familiarized with the IOM process; reviewed the Statement of Task; and began planning for their second committee meeting in Pretoria, South Africa on April 12-15, 2010. The full committee was in attendance, including co-chairs Tom Quinn and David Serwadda, and committee members Salim Karim, Amaboo Dhai, Jennifer Cooke, Geoff Garnett, Peter Ndumbe, Mead Over, Jessica Price, Francis Omaswa, Carmen Portillo, and Marla Salmon.