[pronut-hiv] 7th ICAAP's civil society statement includes 'Assuredfood security and micronutrient provision' (4)

["Isaacs, Dr. Evelyn - hre" <isaacse@whoafr.org>]

Agreed. I think it is even worse being hungry and sick.
Thanks 
Evelyn

-----Alice A. Ndong wrote:

How nice, we are just having a training on micronutrient in august and I
will use this statement as part of my introduction.
Thank you.


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-----Abhinav Bharat Foundation wrote:
Dear Friends,

Here is the civil society statement that was read out at the closing
ceremony of ICAAP. I am glad to say that they included "- Assured food
security and micronutrient provision" while laying out comprehensive
care and support for people living with HIV, as one of the key areas
demanding attention from governments.

read more.... (jitendra - ABF - AIDS CARE WATCH PARTNER ORGANIZATION)

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7th ICAAP: Civil Society Statement to National Governments in the Asia
Pacific region 7th International Congress on HIV/AIDS in Asia and the
Pacific 2005

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[Mods note: The following civil society statement was read during the
closing ceremony of the recently concluded 7th International Congress on
HIv/AIDS in the Asia Pacific (ICAAP). We encourage members in the region
to use this statement as an advocacy tool to pressure governments to
keep previously made commitments to HIV/AIDS prevention, care and
treatment, particulary related to the UNGASS committments. If members
would like more information or a version of the statement with the ICAAP
logo attached, please email info@aidscarewatch.org.]

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The following statement presents the outcome of several meetings
involving civil society organisations that took place during the 7th
International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, held in Kobe,
Japan, 1-5 July, 2005.

Members of civil society represented here welcome previous statements
and commitments on HIV/AIDS by our governments. In particular we are
grateful for the detailed commitments made in the following:

- The UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS

- The Ministerial Statement from the Second Asia-Pacific Ministerial
Meeting on HIV/AIDS held in Bangkok, Thailand on 11 July 2004

Together, these commitments present the essence of what we have been
discussing all this week.

Every hour more than 148 Asians contract HIV, representing an abysmal
failure to adequately address the prevention needs, particularly among
vulnerable groups, including men who have sex with men, injecting drug
users, sex workers, women and young girls, youth and mobile populations.

In the region, the number of people receiving ARVs has increased
three-fold from 55,000 to 155,000 in the past 12 months. Despite this
significant progress, the overall proportion of people in the region
with advanced HIV infection receiving ARVs remains pitifully low,
mirroring the global average of around 15%.

Further, the individual care needs of the 8.2 million men, women and
children already living with HIV in the region presents a major future
challenge that we are not adequately acknowledging or even openly
discussing. Our national health systems are simply not ready to absorb
this scale of even basic care needs.

The current gap in all kinds of HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care
provision in the region represents a common failure to meet the key
government commitments we have highlighted.

We therefore demand that urgent action be taken by each of our
governments and other leaders, to keep previous promises to provide
comprehensive AIDS prevention, treatment and care services to our
people, as those detailed in the UNGASS Declaration, We also demand that
national health budgets adequately reflect the requirements of the
national AIDS control programs.

We also insist that our leaders take immediate action to provide
affordable, readily available care and treatment options to keep people
alive while we are waiting for governments, international donors and
other institutions to deliver on their ARV promises, including:

- Voluntary counselling and testing;

- Prevention and treatment of tuberculosis;

- Drugs to prevent/treat other opportunistic infections;

- Home- and community-based care services;

- Reduced HIV-related stigma, esp in health care;

- Pharmacotherapy therapy for injecting drug uses;

- Traditional healing and care approaches;

- Assured food security and micronutrient provision.

Finally, we welcome and wholeheartedly support one of the four major
recommendations that UNAIDS proposed during this ICAAP Conference:
Countries should increase support to civil society organizations'
involvement in national responses

- We therefore demand that our governments work in equal and meaningful
partnership with civil society including people living with HIV and
vulnerable populations in addressing the control of the epidemic.

In mid-2006 a comprehensive review of national performance against the
specific targets laid out in the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on
HIV/AIDS will be presented by each country, finally placing each of our
leaders under an international HIV/AIDS spotlight of accountability.

In support of the UNGASS goals, the UNAIDS recommendation above, and in
light of the national UNGASS review process taking place this year, we
demand our governments to:

Immediately establish a formal mechanism for the receipt of written
and/or orally presented information and reports from civil society
organizations and PWHA organizations on declaration of commitment
implementation in their countries as input for the national 2006
Progress Report.

Statement By:

Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS

Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organization

Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers

Asian Harm Reduction Network

AP-Rainbow (Asia-Pacific Network of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and
Transgenders AIDS Society of Asia Pacific Coordination of Action
Research on AIDS and Mobility

AND the

World AIDS Campaign, Massive Effort Campaign, Positive Women's Network,
and the other 250 partners of the AIDS-Care-Watch Campaign.

Stop-AIDS in Asia...Keep the PROMISE. Thank you very much.

[Spoken by: Periasamy Kousalya from Positive Women's Network, India
- 5th July 2005]

Reproduction welcomed provided HDN is informed of usage and source is
cited as follows: SEA-AIDS eForum 2005: sea-aids@eforums.healthdev.org

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