Pan Pacific Gathering for HIV+ People 2008 - University of Otago, Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand

Last Updated Sat 16 August 2008

	Tuesday 2^nd September	Wednesday 3^rd September	Thursday 4^th September	Friday 5^th September
8.00am		Registration	Registration	Registration
9.00am	Positive Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Network (PATSIN) Indigenous Satellite Session - continues through to 3:00pm at Univ of Otago	Opening & Plenary - Human Rights Speaker: Hon. Dame Carol Kidu Speaker: Ms Rosslyn Noonan Speaker: Stuart Watson Speaker: Maire Bopp Dupont	Plenary - Continuing Care and Wellbeing Speaker: Jeffery Grierson Speaker: Helen Samilo or Maura Elaripe Speaker: Frika Chia Iskandar Speaker: Tim Barnett MP	Plenary - The Way Forward Speaker: Warren Lindberg Speaker: Emosi Ratini Speaker: Susan Paxton Speaker: Naomi Williams
10.30am	Morning Tea	Morning Tea	Morning Tea	Morning Tea
11.00am	PATSIN Indigenous Satellite Session continues	Panel Discussion on Human Rights	Panel Discussion on Continuing Care and Wellbeing	Closed Sessions Skills Building Abstracts
12.30pm	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
1.30pm	Registration at U of Otago PATSIN Indigenous Satellite Session	Closed Sessions Skills Bulding Abstracts	Closed Sessions Skills Bulding Abstracts	2.00pm Poroporoaki / Closing Session Speaker: Hon. Chris Carter 3.00pm Declaration of 2008 Gathering To Go Forward
3.30pm	Afternoon Tea	Afternoon Tea	Afternoon Tea
4.00pm	Bus leaving at 4pm to go to Opening Ceremony and Powhiri Speakers: Luamanuvao Winnie Laban & Hon. Dame Carol Kidu	End of Day Discussion Skills Building	End of Day Discussion Skills Building
Evening	Welcome Dinner after Powhiri	Dinner at Sky Tower	Cocktail evening at Crest Bar

The Closed Sessions consist of two streams for presentation of papers and abstracts in Rooms 4.01 and 3.01 and also skills building Workshops in Room 3.17. The two streams focus on the following issues:

Building Knowledge and Improving care.- incuding the issue of Treatments from the 2005 Declaration
Strengthening Leadership and Engaging Communities - including the issues of Advocacy, Stigma and Discrimination, and HIV in the Workplace from the 2005 Declaration.

The skills workshops also concentrate on Advocacy, Discrimination, Community and Leadership issues.

The two streams for the conference gathering reflect the Key Areas identified by the 2005 PanPacific Conference.

The Positive Peoples 2005 Declaration noted the key areas for future work include:

Stigma & Discrimination
HIV in the Workplace
Treatments
Advocacy

The inclusion of these above issues from the 2005 Declaration are prioritised into the two 2008 programme streams.