More than 100 health experts have confirmed participation in first Asia/Pacific Women, Girls & HIV/AIDS Beet Practices Conference which will be held here from November 29 to December 1. The conference is being organised by AMAL Human Development Network, an Islamabad-based NGO in collaboration with Ministry of Health, the National AIDS Control Program, DFID, and the Asia-Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS.
The conference will be inaugurated by Federal Minister for Health, Muhammad Nasir Khan and will be attended by experts from different countries including Nepal, India, Iran, Myanmar, Thailand; Malaysia, Mongolia, China, Bangladesh and Cambodia. The conference will be chaired by Dr Nafis Sadik Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.
In the conference experts from USA, UK, Australia, Scotland and Switzerland are also participating. The representatives from different NGOs working on HIV/AIDS in Pakistan, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Iran and Mongolia are also participating in the conference.
International donors agencies including UNAIDS, World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), DFID etc are also participating in the conference.
In the conference the representatives from different ministries including Health, Population, Interior besides representatives from all the four provinces HIV/AIDS programmes are also attending the conference.
The participants from different countries, Organisations, institute, NGO and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) will present papers on different aspects of the disease and would suggest different steps to block the virus in their societies. The conference will be a flagship event of World AIDS Day in Pakistan and throughout Asia and the Pacific.
World AIDS Day in Pakistan was being ushered in by a ground breaking conference that promised to mobilise broad collaboration to effectively fight HIV/AIDS in Asia, said Imran Rizvi the Director of AMAL an NGO working for the cause.
This conference will bring together policy makers, practitioners and activists from throughout Asia and the Pacific to explore the threats of HIV/AIDS to women and their frontline role in halting the march of pandemic into the region.
This conference is the first in a proposed series of conferences on women, girls and HIV/AIDS where national leaders, policy makers, programme managers, researchers, funding agencies and most importantly women, men and young people directly affected by the HIV AIDS crisis can meet and share knowledge and experiences related to HIV/AIDS in the region.
The conference is an opportunity to share best practices and successful experiences in programme implementation as well as identify the gaps in programme implementation, in research and in policy implementation.
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