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PRESS RELEASE
19 November 2001
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES REQUEST EQUITABLE REGIONAL REPRESENTATION IN THE NEW FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TB AND MALARIA
Governments and NGOs bring country perspective to the Fund’s design

SÃO PAOLO, 19 November – Future representation in the Fund’s Executive Board has to include a large representation of recipient countries comprising all regions of the world, NGOs and people living with AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, according to participants in a two-day meeting in São Paolo.

Delegates from around 21 countries and more than 10 representatives from NGO networks from Latin America and the Caribbean gathered together on Sunday and Monday, 18-19 November, to discuss how the new Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria should be designed to best meet country needs.

"The Caribbean are among the regions with the highest AIDS prevalence in the world and the people affected suffer from stigmatization and discrimination. We need to find ways of building trust. As a new partnership, which includes all stakeholders, the Fund will be an important step in this direction. It will help to build trust between governments and NGOs," said Carole Allison Senah, Deputy Director of Health Promotion of the Ministry of Health in Trinidad & Tobago.

This consultation, sponsored by the governments of Brazil, Trinidad & Tobago, and UNAIDS, is one of a series of consultation meetings being arranged to garner the input and relevant insight of representatives from stakeholders crucial to the implementation of the Fund. Other meetings are being held with delegations from countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe. Rounding out the consultation process have been meetings with representatives from NGOs and academia.

"I am very pleased with the outcomes of this meeting. All the Latin American regions were represented, and in addition we had the right balance of government delegates, NGOs, representatives from civil society networks of people living with HIV/AIDS, and multilateral organizations", said Paulo Teixeira, National Coordinator of the Sexually Transmitted Diseases & AIDS Program of the Ministry of Health in Brazil, and also member of the TWG. "We elaborated concrete recommendations for the TWG , which will be discussed at the next TWG meeting in Brussels", he said.

The TWG, comprised of nearly 40 representatives of developing and developed countries, UN agencies, the World Bank, the private sector, foundations and NGOs, will next meet in Brussels on 22-24 November. At this meeting – the second of three – the participants will need to make final decisions on a number of issues that include governance, country implementation processes, accountability, fiduciary and legal arrangements, and frameworks for technical review of country proposals.

At its first meeting in October, the TWG reached consensus on the basic principles, purpose and scope of the Fund. At its third and final meeting in mid-December, the TWG intends to have made all the necessary arrangements to be able to hand over operational responsibility to the ultimate Board of the Fund.

Read the Press Release in Spanish 82 Ko and Portuguese 82 Ko.

 


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