hroughout the Global Partners Forum, concurrent sessions were held by a self-nominated group of forum participants, led by UNICEF and UNAIDS, to further develop the draft GPF 2008 communiqué. Peter McDermott, Chief Operation Officer of the Children Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) and Chief Rapporteur of the Fourth GPF participated in the discussions and provided input on the outcomes of the four panel discussions. In addition, the communiqué of the RIATT meeting in Dar-es-Salaam was also used to guide the drafting process and structure. Additional meetings of the communiqué working group were held the day before as well as on the day after the Global Partners Forum to capture the input provided by the global partners during the final round of discussions.
The 2008 Global Partners Forum participants issued the following communiqué and committed themselves to implementing the priority action points included below, monitoring their progress and to holding themselves accountable to children affected by HIV and AIDS:
