PCB NGO Delegation

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PCB NGO Delegation
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Europe

• LONG-TERM ISSUES
• Promoting evidence-based approaches in HIV
  response addressing policies negatively
  affecting human rights and health of PLHIV and
  vulnerable groups
• Increased civil society involvement on the global
  scale through exchange of best practice from
  different regions
• REGION-SPECIFIC, SHORT-TERM (?) ISSUES
• Sustainable Funding of NGOs and especially CBOs,
• in particular in Central and Eastern Europe and
  Central Asia
• both core funding and direct services
• Human Rights, HIV Prevention and Treatment for
  Vulnerable Groups
• People who use drugs, LGBT, MSM, sex workers
• Migrants, Ethnic Minorities
• access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and
  support
• travel restrictions
• VCT - scale up and ensure quality
• Criminalisation of HIV Transmission
• HIV at Workplace
• Co-infections TB and hepatitis C
• Drug Policy and Drug Treatment, incl.
  Substitution Treatment

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Africa

• LONG-TERM ISSUES
• Promote the professionalization and
  specialisation of Civil Society involvement.
• SHORT-TERM ISSUES
• Integrating and promoting Positive Prevention in
  national HIV/AIDS response.
• Sustainable Funding to empower CSO and
  grassroots,
• Promote prevention amongst Vulnerable Groups
  (MSM, LGBT, etc.)
• Co-infections TB and hepatitis C
• Promote nutrition literacy in AIDS response

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North America

• LONG-TERM ISSUES---(In addition to Long Term
  issues in European region)
• 1) maintaining the focus--AIDS exceptionality
  versus AIDS as a chronic disease
• 2) maintaining the commitment in the context of
  increasing competition for scarce resources and
  scepticism about research options for vaccine and
  microbicides
• 3) Funding the global response, meeting MDG
  targets in context of weakening economies and
  shifting priorities
• REGION-SPECIFIC, SHORT-TERM ISSUES
• Sustainable funding of AIDS Service Organizations
  and ensuring their response stays relevant and
  changes to reflect changing epidemic
• Co-infections hepatitis C--HIV in particular
• Evidence based drug policies including
  comprehensive harm reduction programming
• Prevention messaging fatigue
• Epidemic among Black youth, particularly in US
  cities
• Meeting the needs of persons from countries where
  AIDS is endemic living in industrialised
  countries
• Criminalisation of HIV transmission

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Latin America and the Caribbean

• LONG-TERM ISSUES
• Gender base violence and gender norms drive the
  epidemic for both women and men.
• Very unequal region in terms of the AIDS
  response, wealth of countries and national
  responses to the epidemic as in political
  commitment.
• The epidemic affecting those who are more
  vulnerable, in the margins of society, this could
  be due to gender identities or sexual
  preferences, ethnic ascendance, age, rural/urban
  differences or economic and social inequalities
  such as access to education and livelihoods.
• Migration inside the countries and
  internationally is not being addressed by NACs.
• REGION-SPECIFIC, SHORT-TERM (?) ISSUES
• High levels of stigma and discrimination for
  vulnerable groups and PLHA, specially in some
  Caribbean countries, some cases of murder
• Sustainable Funding of NGOs and especially CBOs,
• in particular in middle income countries and poor
  countries
• Political lines in some countries defining
  access/denial to international funding (e.g.
  Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba)
• Human Rights, HIV Prevention and Treatment for
  Vulnerable Groups
• LGBT, MSM, sex workers
• Migrants, Ethnic Minorities
• access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and
  support
• travel restrictions
• Labour migrants being deported from countries in
  the global north due to health issues and HIV
  status
• VCT - scale up and ensure quality
• Criminalisation of HIV Transmission
• Co-infections TB and hepatitis C

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Asia and the Pacific

• Long Term Issues
• Increased and meaningful involvement of Civil
  Society especially PHIV in AIDS Response and
  those from groups where behavior is criminalized
  (People Who Use Drugs, MSM, Sex Workers)
• Promoting evidence-based approaches in HIV
  response addressing policies negatively
  affecting human rights and health of PLHIV and
  vulnerable groups
• Address Migration to and from countries as well
  as internal in the context of HIV
• Short Term Issues
• Sustainable Funding to NGOs especially CBOs
• Building capacity of the Networks representing
  vulnerable groups to participate in the AIDS
  Response
• Access to Treatment beyond First Line
• Co-infections especially Hep C
• Increase the role of and address the HIV service
  needs of Women and Girls