The Global Conference on Gearing Macroeconomic Policies to Reverse the HIV/AIDS Epidemic will bring together economists, HIV/AIDS specialists, government policymakers, policy specialists of the U.N., the Bretton Woods Institutions and bilateral agencies, and NGO representatives from all over the world in order to discuss and debate the issues related to the conference theme and identify appropriate macroeconomic responses. 

A major problem in confronting the epidemic is that restrictive macroeconomic policies are hampering the effort to utilize the increased funds now available in many countries. If the MDG target for HIV/AIDS is to be reached, even more dramatic scaling up of Official Development Assistance is urgently needed. Macroeconomic policies need to be tailored to accommodate and support this scaling up.

 Conference sessions are designed to engage participants in a lively dialogue on how to forge a new consensus and launch a vigorous advocacy campaign in support of a dramatic increase of resources and the implementation of macroeconomic policies aligned with such an objective.

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