Building on the momentum gained at the XVIIth International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, and the pre-conference symposium we organized with The Teresa Group called Children and HIV/AIDS: Action Now, Action How, we've developed an agenda for the next two years.

CCABA’s Agenda until 2010:

CCABA’s steering committee agreed to focus its activities on Universal Access for Children by 2010.  Furthermore, all of our products and activities should support advocacy for children and families affected by HIV and AIDS.  The following key projects emerged, all of which will have the goal of promoting Universal Access:

• Use networks and leverage its influence to convene meetings with people who normally don’t think about children affected by HIV/AIDS.

• A partnership to engage grantees in a common research project. 

• Support the watch-dogging of organizations such as PEPFAR and the Global Fund.

As a means to achieving and promoting these goals, the following activities were supported:

• Keep working to influence the International AIDS Conference, with the next target being AIDS 2010 in Vienna.
• CCABA and The Teresa Group should organize another pre-conference symposium on children, in Vienna in 2010. We will partner with World Vision Austria.
• CCABA should be engaging with the Global Partners Forum on Children and HIV/AIDS.
• CCABA will develop its own agenda for children, which it will publicized as we lead up to the IAC in 2010.
• CCABA should ‘franchise’ its work raising children’s issues at the IAC by expanding this to other conferences. It could do so through its members and technical experts in Asia and Latin America.
• Funder-members of CCABA will work together to find ways of supporting grantees to increase their capacity in engaging in a research agenda and in advocacy for children.