CCABA has been working since 2005 to improve the lives of children infected and affected by HIV and AIDS.

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:

On August 3rd 2008, CCABA held a 3-hour strategy meeting in Mexico City to decide its agenda for the next two years. CCABA has been working on the following projects:

1) Together with The Teresa Group, organizing & holding a children & HIV/AIDS symposium called “Children and HIV: Family Support First - Working Together to Achieve Universal Support and Access to Treatment”. This symposium will take place on July 16 & 17, 2010 at the Austria Center in Vienna, Austria.

2) Launching and beginning a study in several African countries involving a children’s cohort. This study will determine what links exist between community-based program interventions aimed at vulnerable children and psychosocial and health outcomes in children.

3) Holding a series of meetings on evidence behind effective family-based care models. At these meetings, commissioned academic papers are being presented. At the end of this process, a synthesis paper will be written and circulated, and its finding presented at AIDS 2010 in Vienna.

4) Brokering the hiring of a Vulnerable Children Specialist at the Global Fund on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, with funding from the Swedish International Development Agency. CCABA will be involved in the hiring and will sit on an advisory committee for this position.

5) Advocating for activities to highlight children and research on children at AIDS 2010 in Vienna.

6) Creating a first-ever child-focused research award to be presented at AIDS 2010 in Vienna.