At the first workshop, the Orientation Workshop held in Addis Ababa in May 2003, participants produced a jointly owned overview of the HIV/AIDS problem. They listened to the input from various interviews and panel presentations and surfaced and explored the range of relevant issues and started to explore key drivers of change.

During the Scenario Building Workshop held in Tunis in September 2003, the participants used this overview as a basis to start constructing the scenarios, together with further analysis conducted by the team, from a wide range of commissioned research papers. The Participants drafted storylines and mandated the Project Team to build upon them, inputting further research and analysis.

The purpose of the Affirmation Workshop, held in Johannesburg in April 2004, was for the Participants to view to the work-in-progress scenarios in various presentation formats. The participants gave their input on the relevance, plausibility and challenge of these scenarios.
 
Taking account of their amendments and with the additional contributions of the Participants, the storylines will be further strengthened and illustrated with boxes, data and stories told from the perspectives of key characters who will impact/be impacted by the HIV epidemic in Africa.

Over the next few months, the project team will continue to engage with the participants to finalise the scenario book and supporting presentation materials, as well as compiling a CD-ROM containing the scenarios and research inputs.
The project is looking to a launch date of first quarter 2005. The primary launch event will be held in Africa.

Further details of the objectives and outcomes of each workshop are contained in the Workshop Reports on this web site.