Funding the Response to HIV/AIDS: Why Are Donors Not Working Together? 7/12/2004
XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
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Facilitators:
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- "It's Not the Donors - Countries Don't Want the Donors to Work Together!"
Pradful Patel, Uganda
- "Donors Have Their Pet Projects and Don't Want to Build Capacities for Effective Coordination"
Bizwick Mwale, deputy coordinator, African Mayors' Initiative for Community Action on AIDS, Malawi
- "Coordination is Great but There is No Absorptive Capacity in Most Countries and Donors Need Flexibility To Be Effective"
Mark Dybul, M.D., medical adviser to Ambassador Randall Tobias, head of the State Department, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, United States
- "Tapping Into the Absorptive Capacity in the Community"
Gregg Gonsalves, director of treatment and prevention advocacy, Gay Men's Health Crisis, United States
- "The Problem Rests With the Countries"
Dr. As Sy, director of operational partnerships, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

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