Agenda
Overview and Session 1 – Mental Health in the dual pandemics: what spirituality, resilience and a human rights-based approach have to offer?
- Dainius Pūras, Director, Human Rights Monitoring Institute, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Vilnius university, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health: A human rights based approach to mental health
- Ani Shakarishvili, Special Adviser, Programme Partnerships, UNAIDS: Mental health and HIV: An imperative and an opportunity for integrated people-centered and human rights-based programmes and services for better HIV and health outcomes and wellbeing
- Rev. Sarah Lund, United Church of Christ Minister for Disabilities and Mental Health Justice: Spiritual Care Tools for Community Mental Health
- Sabrina T. Cherry, Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies Certificate, Assistant Professor, Public Health Faculty Fellow, UNCW Center For Social Impact: Impact of spirituality on resilience and coping during the COVID-19 crisis – A mixed- method approach investigating the impact on women
Best Practices & Lessons Learned Session: HIV & COVID-19
- Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga, President of the Bolivian Network of People Living with HIV
- Nkatha Njeru, Coordinator, Africa Christian Health Associations Platform (ACHAP): Best Practices and Lessons Learned – The Case of ACHAP
- Applesta Da Costa, Program Lead, Psychosocial Support for interventions in mental health, Human Touch Foundation, Goa, India, Optimising Health/Non Health Outcomes for Adolescents Living with HIV amid COVID-19
- Fr Rick Bauer, Director of Spiritual and Psychosocial Support for the Eastern Deanery AIDS Relief program in Nairobi, Kenya: Spirituality, Mental Health and Resilience during the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and HIV: Understandings and practices from EDARP
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