The Vatican Platform for High-Level Dialogues

Rome 1

April 2016

A) Intern. Conference: Roadmap for the future of children living with HIV;

B) Meeting with rep. of pharmaceutical and diagnostic industries in the Vatican

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Rome 2

May 2016

Consultation organized by Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Caritas Internationalis, UNAIDS, PEPFAR on "Fast-Trackng Paediatric HIV Diagnosis and Treatment"

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Rome 3

Nov 2017

High-Level Dialogue on Scaling Up Early Diagnosis and Treatment Focus accelerating development and introduction of optimal medecines

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Rome 4

Dec 2018

High-Level Dialogue to address remaining bottlenecks to quickly identify HIV-infected children (diagnostics) and link them to optimal regimes.

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The Vatican platform/initiative has helped:

  1. Elevating the technical discussions around the challenges on paediatric HIV;

  2. Calling several stakeholders to partner and work more closely together even outside of “traditional” partnerships;

  3. The Vatican High Level Dialogues have helped to identify the challenges, define targets and move forward with some concrete solutions – Key: collaboration within the AIDS Free Working Group; and the contribution of the Global Accelerator for Paediatric Formulations (Gap-f)