Submit your responses - NGO report to UNAIDS PCB
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Dear colleagues:
First, lets introduce you to the PCB the Programme Coordinat-
ing Board of UNAIDS - the Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS.
The UNAIDS programme coordinating board (PCB) is a high level
advisory board to UNAIDS, consisting of representatives from 22
governments, 10 cosponsoring organizations, and 5 members repre-
senting civil society (plus five other alternate NGO members).
The five NGO delegates represent the following regions: Africa;
Asia Pacific; Europe; Latin America and the Carribeans; and
North America. The NGOs delegate from Africa for 2004-2005 is
Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria; the alternate dele-
gate is the Kenya Network of Women with AIDS (KENWA).
Each year the NGO members prepare a global report for the annual
PCB meeting, which this year holds in 28-29 June 2005 in Geneva,
Switzerland. This is an excellent opportunity to communicate the
perspectives of the NGO community to high-level officials both
in government and throughout the UN and other organizations
(such as the World Bank).
So that my colleague Ms. Asunta Wagura (from KENWA) and I can
substantially represent the perspectives of civil society NGOs
throughout Africa, we are requesting you to kindly send your re-
sponses to the few questions below. These responses will be com-
piled in each region and a global report will then be created
that will be presented to the entire PCB meeting in June.
Due to time constraints, we request that you kindly send your
responses to the questions below by April 18 2005. That will
give us enough time to compile your submissions and present back
to you for your review before the final NGO report is submitted
to the PCB.
Questions:
1. What are the priority concerns in your community on HIV pre-
vention, treatment and care? What has been successful? What has
failed?
2. What are the core issues of law, ethics and human rights is-
sues and HIV/AIDS in your work? What has been successful? What
has failed?
3. How do gender issues, perceptions and realities affect your
work on HIV/AIDS? What strategies have worked? What has failed?
4. What lessons about partnership, participation and sustain-
ability affecting your AIDS-related work, will you like to share
with the PCB? What are the main lessons concerning capacity, re-
sources, programme development and implementation and reporting
that you would like to share? Especially concerning partnership
of civil society, government and the UN system in your country?
5. Finally, please tell us one or two human interest stories
about real lives affected by HIV/AIDS either in terms of nega-
tive or positive impact that current policies and practices of
the UN system and country governments have had on their lives.
These stories should highlight how national and international
policies and practices are helping or undermining global success
in controlling the epidemic, including what steps need to be
taken by to remedy the situations. Please make the stories real
give actual names, locations or periods if possible.
Please respond to us by April 18, 2005 at one of the e-mail ad-
dresses below.
Thank you very much for your kindness.
Omololu Falobi
Journalists Against AIDS Nigeria
mailto:jaaidsng@nigeria-aids.org
Asunta Wagura
Kenya Network of Women with AIDS
mailto:kenwa@wananchi.com