The [him] moderator has focused on fifteen themes last year. He will continue with the same themes in 2006.

He thanks readers who suggested voluntary counselling and testing. Many years ago the [him] moderator worked hard to get the ‘voluntary’ into VCT and he is not about to let it go without a fight. VCT is important as an entry point to the first theme on this list:

•    antiretroviral therapy and care for people living with HIV
•    behavioural change
•    drugs and harm reduction
•    funding
•    Greater Mekong Subregion
•    human security
•    mobility, migration, and migrants
•    monitoring and evaluation
•    Myanmar-specific news
•    government commitment and policy development
•    prevention of mother to child transmission
•    programme management
•    sexually transmitted infections
•    Thailand policy and Myanmar
•    youth