A time
for Hope; a time for Change. Will President Elect Obama bring change to
the
US
response to HIV?
Carol
Bergman, Acting Executive Director of the Washington DC based Global AIDS
Alliance, a NGO dedicated to eradicating HIV and global poverty, gave a
briefing on
the prospect for change in US HIV-related policy. Ms Bergman worked with
leading US based organizations to advise the Obama Transition Team on
changes that need to be made to enable the US to support evidence based
comprehensive responses to HIV. Ms Bergman worked previously with the
Clinton Transition Team.
Kerry McCarthy MP,
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the DFID Secretary of State, Douglas
Alexander chaired this meeting.