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This blog is one of the main ways that the NGO Delegates and the CF Team share information about the work of the Delegation and forthcoming PCB meetings. We encourage you to comment and/or ask questions. The posts are listed in order of most recent. Navigate this page by using the search function or the checklist system on the left to narrow down your search by PCB meeting, theme, or any other tag or key word.

Now Launched: Patent Status Database for Selected HIV Medicines

12 April 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

The Medicines Patent Pool, initiated by UNITAID with support from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), has launched an open access database on existing patents for antiretroviral (ARV) drugs.

Information on patents and their legal status has been difficult to obtain by public health and non-profit organizations. This database offers the comprehensive data needed to increase access to medicines in developing countries by offering country-to-country patent information and encouraging voluntary licensing. The Pool hopes the information offered will help to increase competition and innovation, thus bringing down the price of treatment.

The database contains information on: who holds the patent; reference numbers for patent applications; expected dates of patent expiration; and in which countries the patents have been filed for, granted, withdrawn or do not apply.

Access the Patent Status Database.

Civil Society Hearing: NGO Delegate Johnson, UNAIDS Executive Director Sidibé Speak on Civil Society’s Role in HIV Response

11 April 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz

UNAIDS Press Release

New York, 8 April 2011—More than 400 civil society representatives have come together at the United Nations in New York for a one-day hearing on progress made in the HIV response. The event is an opportunity for United Nations Member States to engage with civil society representatives and people living with HIV to highlight some of the challenges, achievements and aspirations in the AIDS response and find new ways of moving forward.

UN High Level Meeting: June 2011

Civil Society Hearing: NGO Delegate Johnson Speaks on Discrimination, Inequality and Access to Treatment

11 April 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

UN Press Release

Over the tragic 30-year arc of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, solid progress had been made in raising awareness about the disease and bringing down infection rates, but monies devoted to tackling it were drying up, the price of the drugs to treat it were skyrocketing, and rampant discrimination — particularly against gay men, and women living with HIV — had left at the margins of life-saving interventions communities critical to the fight, civil society representatives said at a Headquarters press conference today.

UN High Level Meeting: June 2011

Outcomes From the Virtual Women’s Consultation Toward the HLM

7 April 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

The results are now in for the virtual consultation on women and girls. Over over 700 respondents from more than 95 countries participated in the survey initiated by the ATHENA Network and the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA).

The consultation aimed to engage the voices of women living with and affected by HIV and other key populations of women in the lead up to the High Level Meeting on AIDS on June 8-10 in New York.

Five priorities emerged from the results: 1) access to comprehensive, integrated, and inclusive services: 2) solidarity; 3) gender equality; 4) safety; and 5) education, including comprehensive sexuality education.

More focused regional analysis and fact sheets can be found on Women in Europe’s website for: Asia and the Pacific; Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Middle East and North Africa; West and Central Africa; East and Southern Africa; Latin America; the Caribbean; and North America and Western Europe.

Civil Society Hearing: Panel Background Papers

7 April 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

The Civil Society Task Force has published background papers which will support the three panels at the Civil Society Hearing on 8 April.

In addition to the opening and closing, the three panel discussions, lasting approximately 75-90 minutes will focus on:

Panel I – Enhancing Community-Level Access: Opportunities for Healing Social and Systemic Ills

Panel II –A New Generation of National Partnerships: Diversity in Dialogue

Panel III –Synergies among Global Movements: Opportunities for Shared Action

You can read the background papers in: Arabic | English | French | Russian | Spanish

Watch LIVE the Civil Society Hearing on 8 April in New York City

Civil Society Hearing in New York: Agenda, Panelists & Speakers

Panelists & Speakers: Update and Biographies

Civil Society Hearing Pre-Meetings and Debriefs

UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights Releases Statement Ahead of High-Level Meeting

7 April 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

Geneva, April 6, 2011—The UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights has called on UN Member States to reaffirm the focus on human rights that has driven thirty years of progress in the global HIV response. The 4-page statement sets out five non-negotiables for Member States as they negotiate the outcome document for the High-Level Meeting between now and June 8. It states that the outcome document should:

Reaffirm the emphasis on a human rights approach that mutually obliges rich and poor nations to fulfil the human right to health and that respects, protects and fulfils the human rights of people living with, affected by and vulnerable to HIV and AIDS
Reaffirm Member States’ shared responsibility to realize the human right to health by setting clear targets for funding the HIV response from now until the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015
Commit to utilising, to the fullest extent possible, flexibilities under the TRIPS agreement to lower the price of essential medicines
Renew and reaffirm Member States’ commitment to the removal of laws, policies, practices, stigma and discrimination that block effective responses to AIDS
Reaffirm the centrality of people living with HIV to the response as well as their human rights to non-discrimination, treatment as prevention, and meaningful participation

View the full 15-point statement in English, French, Russian and Spanish.

The UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights was established in 2002 to advise the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS on all matters relating to HIV and human rights. The Reference Group speaks with an independent voice; thus, its views do not necessarily reflect the views of the UNAIDS Secretariat or any of the UNAIDS Cosponsors.

For more information, please contact Reference Group Secretariat Ralf Jurgens at rjurgens@sympatico.ca.

Global Commission on HIV and the Law: Latin America Regional Dialogue

5 April 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

DEADLINE: 6 MAY 2011

The Global Commission on HIV and the Law announces call for submissions for the Latin America Regional Dialogue

The Regional Dialogue will take place on 26-27 June 2011 in the Latin America region. In addition to giving voice to regional and country perspectives on issues of HIV and the law, the dialogue aims to contribute to regional efforts for creating enabling legal environments which support effective HIV responses.

Watch LIVE the Civil Society Hearing on 8 April in New York City

5 April 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

No matter where you are in the world, on the 8th of April you can watch the full proceedings of the Civil Society Hearing on Universal Access live from the United Nations in New York City.

Access here the live video stream on the day

UN High Level Meeting: June 2011

PCB Bureau Examines 2011 Agenda

4 April 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

The latest UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board Bureau meeting took place on 14 March 2011 via teleconference. Present from the NGO Delegation were Africa Delegates Felicita Hikuam and Nadia Rafif.

The Bureau presented its 2011 Workplan, discussed the 28th PCB agenda, provided an update on the UBRAF and reported on the evaluation process for future PCB meeting thematic segments.

Full notes from the meeting can be read here.

You can find on our site notes from the last Bureau meeting.

PCB Bureau

Resources, Mobilization and Human Rights: Universal Access Consultation for West and Central Africa

4 April 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

Civil Society Regional Consultation on Universal Access in West and Central Africa

3-4 March 2011, Dakar, Senegal

Resolutions

On the initiative of the African Council of AIDS Service Organizations (AfriCASO), International HIV/AIDS Alliance (IHAA) and Enda Santé, with the support of the UNAIDS Regional Office for West and Central Africa, about fifty representatives from the main civil society organizations in West and Central Africa involved in the responses to HIV met on 28 February at the Pullman Hotel in Dakar (Senegal) in the framework of the regional consultation of the civil society on universal access.

What Will It Take To Get To Zero?: Universal Access Regional Consultation in Asia-Pacific

31 March 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

From the Coalition of Asia Pacific Regional Networks on HIV/AIDS (pdf)

Asia Pacific Regional Consultation on Universal Access

Bangkok, Thailand, 29 March 2011

Call for Political, Financial & Operational Commitments

UN Secretary-General Releases Progress Report & New Recommendations on AIDS Response

31 March 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

In lead-up to June High Level Meeting, progress report presents overview of efforts needed to help countries achieve universal access to HIV services and zero new HIV infections, discrimination and AIDS-related deaths.

The report can be found here. The press release is available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.

NAIROBI, 31 March 2011—Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic, investments in the AIDS response are yielding results, according to a new report released today by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Titled Uniting for universal access: towards zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths, the report highlights that the global rate of new HIV infections is declining, treatment access is expanding and the world has made significant strides in reducing HIV transmission from mother to child.

Civil Society Hearing in New York: Agenda, Panelists & Speakers

30 March 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

(You can read the full briefing in pdf form here)

***Update: Watch the Civil Society Hearing on the 8th of April LIVE from the United Nations in New York City***

Read the Civil Society Task Force briefing on the Hearing, including an invitation to a pre-meeting on 7 April

Briefing note from the office of the President of the General Assembly

Proposed arrangements for the informal interactive civil society hearing of the General Assembly on the 2011 comprehensive review of the progress achieved in realizing the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (8 April 2011, New York)

Civil Society Consultations: Nine Demands for Reaching Universal Access in Europe and Central Asia

28 March 2011 by Amy Coulterman[PDF][print]

The Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regonal Consultation on Universal Access was held in Kiev, Ukraine from 16-18 March 2011. This consultation involved representatives from governments, national AIDS councils, parliamentarians, national and international civil society, PLHIV Networks, international organizations and donors. NGO Delegate Matthew Southwell, from the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD), attended.

The meeting was closed by the statement of ECUO representative prepared on behalf of civil society networks which urged national governments, international agencies, the UN and donors to undertake urgent actions to stop the spread of the HIV epidemic and to scale up universal access in the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

These regional consultations and their outcomes will assist in influencing the messaging of the reports and documents that will be produced at the upcoming Civil Society Hearing on 8 April 2011 and the High-Level Meeting on 10-11 June 2011, both in New York City.

Below is a joint statement from several organizations who participated in Kiev. You can download this statement in English and Russian.

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