The Global AIDS Crisis

Booz Allen Hamilton conducted a tabletop simulation at the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival in July 2005 to explore India's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The simulation was a living, dynamic, and interactive exercise that brought together thought leaders to address the challenges inherent in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and identify policy imperatives for business, government, and civil society.

The goal was to explore how the public and private sectors could better collaborate to accelerate the response to HIV/AIDS.

Specifically, in a few short hours, participants sought to:

• Understand the potential political, social, and economic impacts of an HIV/AIDS pandemic.
• Understand challenges and requirements in implementing HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care initiatives.
• Identify HIV/AIDS policy imperatives.
• Fully integrate the business community into the global response to HIV/AIDS.
• Facilitate collaboration among public and private stakeholders to implement HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care initiatives.

Booz Allen's Charley Beever and Mark Frost are the authors of "The Global AIDS Crisis—A Strategic Simulation to Explore Public/Private Partnershipsin the Fight Against HIV/AIDS."