Expert Group on HIVAIDS of NDPHS

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Expert Group on HIV/AIDS of NDPHS

• Progress report and plans for 2008
• 13.3.2008

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Objectives

• To enhance priority of HIV/AIDS on political
  agendas
• To support co-ordinated efforts to prevent HIV in
  the Northern Dimension area
• To promote networking and partnership building
  among relevant stakeholders
• To enhance harmonisation of procedures in
  prevention, surveillance, treatment etc.

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Members

• Pauli Leinikki, professor emeritus, Finland
  chairman
• Outi Karvonen, STAKES, Finland ITA
• Anna Marzek-Boguslawska, National AIDS Centre,
  Poland
• Tatiana Smolskaya, Northwest District AIDS
  Centre, Russia
• Saulius Chaplinskas, Lithuanian AIDS Centre

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Members 2

• Ulrich Marcus, Robert Koch Institute, Germany
• Marius Domeika, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Kristi Rüütel, National Institute for Health
  Development, Estonia
• Andris Ferdats, AIDS Prevention Centre, Latvia
• Jean-Elie Malkin, GIP Esther, France

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Members 3

• Henrique Barros, National Coordinator for
  HIV/AIDS, Portugal
• Norway a new nomination expected, as Svein
  Gunnar Gundersen has resigned
• Canada has sent observes, and is expected to
  nominate an official member in 2008

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Expert Group meetings in 2007

• March 14-15 in Berlin, Germany
• October 9-10 in Porto, Portugal

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Project status in the end of 2007

• Ongoing projects - 21
• Projects involving Russia - 18
• Projects involving Norway 12
• Projects involving Finland 6
• Projects involving Sweden 1
• Projects involving Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
  3
• Projects involving France - 1

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Project status 2

• Project proposals 15
• Completed projects - 4

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Other activities in 2007

• Participation in development of project pipeline
  and database
• Reporting in PAC, CSR and EGs Secretariat
  meetings
• Participation in HIV Think tank (EU), Baltic Sea
  convention, Barents HIV/AIDS SC
• A new strategy paper developed

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Other activities in 2007

• Evaluation of the Murmansk Low Threshold Support
  Centre project by the Chairman of the EG
• Training seminar in Zelenogorsk, Russia in
  collaboration with the Barents HIV/AIDS
  Programme. Themes prevention, diagnostics and
  clinical management of HIV and AIDS

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Next steps

• Completing of Thematic Report
• EG meeting in Tallinn in April 3-4
• Development of new projects
• Narva - Ivangorod?
• Replicating low threshold service model in other
  regions of NW Russia (model of Murmansk)
• Co-lead?

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Next steps

• Combined meeting of EGs in Oslo in autumn?
  (including own EG meeting)
• EG meeting in Canada in spring 2009
• PAC side event in 2009?

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Financing

• ITA and coordination financed through a project
  in 2008-2010 by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
  Finland
• Chairman financed by the Ministry of Social
  Affairs and Health at least in 2008
• Additional possibilities offered by the Finnish
  financing in the project pipeline

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• Low Threshold Support Centre Doverie in
  Murmansk
• Director of the Centre Fedor Bailuk
• Nurse Natalja Egorova
• Established in 2005 in collaboration with STAKES

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