On October 2nd, 2014, PEPFAR hosted the Children’s Risk and Resilience in the Age of HIV/AIDS event in partnership with USAID, the Leadership, Management, and Governance (LMG) Project, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), and the CDC in Washington, D.C. This event featured exciting presentations and panel discussions with top global experts on children, HIV/AIDS, and child development to highlight Children’s Risk and Resilience in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The event was a culmination of two years of research and consultation supported by two USAID-funded projects under Management Sciences for Health: the LMG Project and AIDSTAR-Two, to deepen our understanding and response to both the short and long-term consequences of HIV and AIDS on children.

Please see PEPFAR’s event page for additional information.

Event Materials
Agenda
Speaker Biographies
Highlights from Phase 1 and Phase 2
Highlights from Modeling Report
Summary Report on Economic Forecasting Model
AIDS Issue on Children born into families affected by HIV

Presentations and Recordings

Summary video of the day’s presentations

Welcome (Video)
Dr. Nicole Behnam, Senior Orphans and Vulnerable Children Advisor, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

Opening Remarks (Video)
Julia Martin, Deputy Coordinator for Program Quality, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

Overview of Phase I & II: What we know according to the evidence (Presentation / Video)
Dr. Linda Richter, Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council; Director, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, Universities of the Witwatersrand and KwaZulu-Natal

Panel Discussion: Highlights from the Evidence Reviews
Moderator: Dr. Nicole Behnam, Senior Orphans and Vulnerable Children Advisor, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

• Lorraine Sherr, Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology, University College London (Presentation/Video)
• Aryeh Stein, Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University (Presentation/Video)
• Charles Nelson III, Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School (Presentation/Video)
• James Mercy, Acting Director of the Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Presentation/Video)
• Oscar Barbarin III, The Lila L and Douglas J. Hertz Endowed Chair, Department of Psychology, Tulane University (Presentation/Video)
• Audience Question and Answer (Video)

Modeling the Long-Term Impacts of HIV and AIDS on Children (Presentation/Video)
Dr. Chris Desmond, Chief Research Specialist, Human Sciences Research Council

Experience as Evidence: Growing Up in the Age of HIV/AIDS (Video)
Moderator: Dr. Beverly Nyberg, Senior Advisor on Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Peace Corps

Panel Discussion: From Evidence to Action (Video)
Moderator: Gretchen Bachman, Senior Advisor Orphans and Vulnerable Children, United States Agency for International Development

• Kendra Blackett-Dibinga, OVC Task Force Co-Chair, Sr. Director of Child Protection, Save the Children USA
• Lisa Bohmer, Senior Program Officer, International Programs, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
• Lucie Cluver, University Lecturer in Evidence-Based Social Intervention, University of Oxford; Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
• Anita Smith, President, Children’s AIDS Fund International
• Massimo Lowicki-Zucca, SCORE Chief of Party, AVSI

Closing Remarks (Video)
Dr. Jennifer Adams, Deputy Assistant Administrator Bureau of Global Health, United States Agency for International Development[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]