Invitation
The Joint United Nations Theme Group on AIDS in Myanmar presents
ICAAP Satellite Session
Responding to AIDS in Myanmar:
Foundations for Universal Access
Date and time: Monday 20th August 2007, 6.30pm – 8pm
Location: Room A, ICAAP Colombo
Moderator: Daniel B. Baker, Chair of the United Nations Theme Group on AIDS in Myanmar, UNFPA Representative in Myanmar
Synopsis:
In 2006 the response to AIDS in Myanmar achieved significant progress: a new National Strategic Plan was developed, including the completion of the costed Operational Plan; and in late 2006 the 3-Diseases Fund (3DF) was launched and became operational in early 2007. With these key developments, in 2007 there is a real and tangible opportunity to continue to expand the AIDS response in Myanmar with the aim of reaching Universal Access. To fund this expansion, the mobilization of additional financial resources is an immediate and urgent priority.
With the aim of discussing the progress and future of the response in Myanmar, the United Nations Theme Group on AIDS in Myanmar have organized a Satellite Session at the ICAAP conference in Colombo. The session will: present an overview of the current epidemic situation; outline recent gains in the response to AIDS in Myanmar; and highlight the needs for, and opportunity to, support a further expansion of the response.
Key-note speakers:
o H.E. Prof Dr Mya Oo, Deputy Minister of Health, Myanmar
Overview of response to AIDS in Myanmar.
o Ms Naw She Wah, PLHIV representative
PLHIV perspective.
Speakers:
o Dr Min Thwe, National AIDS Programme, Programme Manager, Myanmar
Progress of the response.
o Dr Wiwat Peerapatanapokin, Regional Technical Officer, East-West Center, Hawaii / Policy Research and Development Institute, Thailand
Progress of the epidemic.
o Dr Frank Smithius, Country Representative, M?decins Sans Fronti?res Holland (AZG), Myanmar
NGO experience in scaling-up treatment in Myanmar.
Panelists:
o Asa Andersson, Regional Adviser HIV/AIDS, Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi (Three Diseases Fund Donor)
o Brian Williams, UNAIDS Country Coordinator, Myanmar
