Public/private partnership key to tackling HIV/AIDS

London, UK-based management consultant Booz Allen Hamilton and the Global Business Coalition have just released a summary report on the findings of a scenario development workshop, a technical event and leaders forum held in Moscow, Russia.

These events united local, national and global leaders from business, government and non-governmental organizations to fight growing HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis epidemics in emerging market economies.

GBC members participated in a series of meetings with high-level policymakers; made visits to local AIDS and TB treatment facilities, orphanages and outreach programs; and engaged in focused scenario building exercises. Activities culminated with the 2007 Leaders Forum, which provided participants with an opportunity to discuss the development and initiation of new, high-impact public-private partnerships in the area of public health. Distinguished guests included Ambassador Richard Holbrooke (GBC), Vladimir Pozner (Academy of Russian TV), Peter Robertson (Chevron), Jorge Sampaio (UN Special Envoy to Stop TB), and Clyde Tuggle (The Coca-Cola Company), among others.