Your chance to contribute to UNAIDS' HIV prevention strategy
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Dear colleagues:
In June 2004, the 15th meeting of the Programme Coordinating
Board of UNAIDS requested the secretariat and co-sponsor agen-
cies to develop a global strategy to intensify HIV prevention.
The request emerged for several reasons, including the fear that
prevention would be lost amidst the growing attention to treat-
ment and concern to respond to the growing need and demand for a
more comprehensive approach to HIV/AIDS, integrating prevention,
care, support and treatment.
Following this meeting UNAIDS consulted with a number of cospon-
sors and collaborating centres and developed a draft strategy
which was reviewed by the board in December 2004 meeting. The
final draft of the new HIV prevention strategy will be presented
for the board at its meeting in June 2005.
This process presents a useful opportunity for HIV prevention
advocates, NGOs, government agencies, the private sector and
other partners to input into the strategy. In addition to re-
gional and country consultations, UNAIDS is also asking HIV ad-
vocates, networks of NGOs and other stakeholders to send in
their contributions.
As a guidance, UNAIDS has drafted the following questions, to
which you may kindly provide your valuable insights and perspec-
tives:
1. What are your current prevention priorities and how are these
determined?
2. How has your organisation's prevention priorities changed
over the last five years? Please list specific ongoing initia-
tives on prevention for each organisation.
3. Please list the three most important elements of your organi-
zation or agency's current work in the field of HIV prevention.
Which of these elements will be scaled up in the context of in-
tensifying prevention?
4. What new activities does your organisation plan to undertake
as part of the process of intensifying HIV prevention?
5. In your own opinion, what would it take to scale up preven-
tion of HIV within your community or region?
6. What are you currently doing to scale up prevention?
7. What should happen globally to support action for intensify-
ing prevention in your country?
Please send your responses to these questions by e-mail to the
undersigned [mailto:omololu@nigeria-aids.org] for collation and
forwarding to the UNAIDS secretariat in Geneva, on behalf of Af-
rican communities.
Alternatively, you may wish to send your responses directly to
the contact person at UNAIDS secretariat [Anindya Chatterjee] at
mailto:chatterjeea@unaids.org
Your responses must be received LATEST BY MARCH 20 2005. Please
send in your perspectives to this important process for
strengthening action on HIV prevention.
Share your thoughts and experiences for HIV prevention.
Let your voice count!
Warm regards,
Omololu Falobi
UNAIDS PCB NGO Delegate for Africa
mailto:omololu@nigeria-aids.org