EANNASO’s participation at the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA)

 International Conferences on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) are held every year to assess, evaluate, share information, lobby, advocate and deliberate on HIV and AIDS issues concerning the continent of Africa. The 15th ICASA conference was held in Dakar Senegal in December, 2008. The theme for EANNASO's participation at the 15th ICASA conference was centered on financing indigenous CSOs so that the impact of AIDS finances can be felt at the community level.

EANNASO invited its members and CSOs from the continent and the world at large to organize a collective action towards addressing observed challenges within the financial issue. It was the launch of a one year campaign on AIDS financing. The campaign aimed at putting a collective action towards addressing observed challenges within the AIDS financing. The campaign is carried out to call for increase of funding to CSOs with the rationale that despite the significant increase of AIDS financing, these finances don't trickle down to indigenous CSOs. The campaign is rooted from voices raised by CSOs and countries on scarcity of resources and will run for one year.

EANNASO participated at the 15th ICASA conference in three key events; launching of the AIDS financing campaign, information sharing through a booth and participating in and facilitating various conference sessions.

The AIDS Finance campaign with the theme 'Yes We Can: Invest in Indigenous CSOs Now! launched at the ICASA comprised of three main events which were: a round table discussion, the campaign launch and a community action march.