Sub-Regional Workshop on HIV / AIDS

Sub-Regional Workshop
Strengthening HIV/AIDS Prevention in
UNFPA Programming in South and West Asia
Kathmandu, Nepal
25-29 August 2003

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Introduction:

UNFPA HIV/AIDS Branch in collaboration with Asia and the Pacific Division, UNFPA Headquarters, New York and UNFPA CST for SAWA Kathmandu, Nepal is organizing a regional HIV/AIDS workshop for UNFPA Country Offices in South and West Asia to strengthen organizational response to HIV/AIDS prevention and programming.

Purpose:

To develop a sub-regional strategic framework for UNFPA support to HIV prevention in SAWA with country specific follow-up action plans based on the status of the epidemic in each of the countries.
To strengthen UNFPA’s institutional capacity to programme for HIV prevention and for linkages between HIV and RH.

Objectives:

To develop a clearer and common understanding of all the elements of the Fund’s Strategic Guidance on HIV Prevention for country level programming.
To update participants on the status and policy/advocacy issues of the epidemic in the sub-region
To provide a technical update in the three UNFPA focus areas of young people, pregnant women and condom programming for HIV prevention to facilitate programming.
To share experiences, lessons learnt based on examples from SAWA countries as well as from South East Asia also.
To articulate a SAWA sub-regional strategic framework for HIV/AIDS prevention and country specific follow-up steps.
To identify/define one initial priority theme for action for technical support, knowledge sharing, networking and partnership building as well as the roles and responsibilities of countries, UNFPA CST, headquarters- TSD and APD.

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