ONUSIDA fue el primer programa de las Naciones Unidas en tener a la sociedad civil formalmente representada en su órgano rector. La Delegación de ONG a la JCP de ONUSIDA tiene un triple papel, uno de los cuales es participar con objetividad e independencia en el funcionamiento y la toma de decisiones de la JCP.
Representación de las ONG en la JCP
África
- Mr. Joel Gustave Nana, African Men for Sexual Health and Rights (AMSHeR), South Africa
- Ms. Nadia Rafif, Association de Lutte Contre le Sida (ALCS), Morocco
Asia y Pacífico
- Ms. Jane Bruning, Positive Women Incorporated / Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (APN+), New Zealand
- Mr. John Rock, International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), Australia
Europa
- Ms. Dasha Ocheret, Eurasian Harm Reduction Network, Lithuania
- Mr. Bryan Teixeira, European AIDS Treatment Group, United Kingdom
Latinoamérica y el Caribe
- Ms. Alessandra Nilo, Gestos – HIV+, Communication and Gender, Brazil
- Dr. Mabel Bianco, Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM), Argentina
Norte América
- Ms. Ebony Johnson, International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), United States
- Mr. Charles King, Housing Works Inc., United States
África Main Delegate Joel Gustave Nana is the Executive Director of the African Men for Sexual Health and Rights (AMSHeR), a position he has held since the organisation’s founding in 2009. AMSHeR is a regional coalition of 18 MSM/LGBTI led organisations in 15 sub-Saharan countries that work to address the vulnerability of men who have sex with men [MSM], gay and bisexual men as well as male-to-female transgender persons, to HIV/AIDS. Joel Nana brings to the PCB over a decade of extensive experience on health and human rights issues at national and international levels and several African countries. He has been a catalyst and proponent of LGBT and LGBT specific HIV/AIDS activism since 1999 when he played significant roles in forming the movements in his native Cameroun. Mr Nana has co-founded and led a number of national, regional and global organizations and networks including Alternatives Cameroun, the countries leading LGBTI organizations, and the Global Forum on MSM and HIV which he co-founded and co-chaired until 2010. As the Executive Director of AMSHeR, he has directed the young organisation to several successes, perhaps most notably holding Africa’s first ever dedicated MSM Preconference at the 16th Edition of ICASA, in Addis Ababa in 2011. Mr Nana is fluent in English and French. Mr Nana is presently working on a PhD in International Human Rights Law with research interests on the legal limitations to accessing Health services by key affected populations. Alternate Delegate Nadia Rafif joined the Association for the Fight against AIDS (Association de Lutte Contre le Sida – ALCS)’s Marrakech, Morocco office in 2002 as Executive Director. In her role, she participated in the development of the first prevention program for the most at risk populations in North Africa and led the development of regional projects for the MENA region on access to treatment, stigma and discrimination and civil society involvement in Global Fund programs. Since 2008, Nadia has acted as the MENA Regional Coordinator of the Civil Society Action Team (CSAT), which aims to coordinate, broker and advocate for technical support to civil society organizations implementing or seeking grants from the Global Fund. Recently, she was selected to represent civil society on the MENA delegation at the Global Fund Board. Nadia is also a member of regional and international networks advocating for access to treatment – the Pan African Treatment Access Movement (PATAM) and International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) – for whom she has organized workshops and summits. She specializes in the provision of technical support to civil society, programmatic and organizational issues in NGOs, addressing vulnerability to HIV, access to services and human rights issues with regards to marginalized and vulnerable populations. Through her membership in the NGO Delegation, Nadia will dedicate herself to representing the typically underrepresented MENA region and to bringing the specific issues of her community to high level meetings.
Mr. Joel Gustave Nana
African Men for Sexual Health and Rights [AMSHeR], South Africa
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Ms. Nadia Rafif
Association de Lutte Contre le Sida (ALCS), Morocco
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Asia y Pacífico Main Delegate Jane has been living with HIV since 1988. For the past seven years she has worked as the National Coordinator of Positive Women Inc. in New Zealand, a support network for women and families living with HIV. The organization is also involved in HIV awareness, advocacy and the destigmatisation of HIV. Positive Women Inc. is a member of the Asia Pacific Network of Positive People (APN+) and has been the New Zealand alternate delegate for the past 5 years. The organization is also a member of the Asia Pacific Alliance on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. With a Masters in Social Practice, Jane has a background in community development and advocates for the greater involvement of people living with HIV or AIDS and empowering communities to take the leadership role in identifying their own needs and solutions in the response to HIV and AIDS. During her time on the delegation, Jane commits to advocate on behalf of the Asia Pacific region on human rights-based issues such as universal access to HIV medications, law reform for MSM, sex-workers and drug users, gender equality through the empowerment of women and girls and the elimination of HIV related stigma and discrimination. Alternate Delegate John Rock has lived with HIV for over thirty years. He knows that he is only alive today because of the availability of good quality treatment. That is why since 2001 he has volunteered his time to fight for treatment access for all PLHIV in all countries. He served as Australian Board member of APN+ and as an advisor. Since 2008, he has been involved in the implementation of an AusAID-funded capacity building program in nine Asia Pacific countries on behalf of APN+. John is an active Global Board Member of ITPC which he sees as critically important in attaining the goal of quality HIV treatment for all. He is also the Chair of the Board of Australian Foundation for Peoples of Asia and the Pacific, a Sydney-based INGO that does development work in Africa, South and South East Asia and the Pacific, with a strong bottom up community based approach. His HIV work has been concentrated in Asia and the Pacific but through ITPC has covered the whole world. He has a particular interest in IP issues affecting treatment access. With a degree in chemistry and a career background in international marketing, John ran his own marketing consultancy working in 16 countries on four continents for ten. He is above all a communicator, and speaks several European languages. He is openly HIV+ and openly gay. Although only a small part of his work is in Australia that is where he chooses to live.
Ms. Jane Bruning
Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (APN+) / Positive Women Incorporated, New Zealand
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Mr. John Rock
International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), Australia
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Europa Main Delegate Dasha Ocheret entered the sphere of harm reduction in 1998 as a volunteer and then as an outreach worker in the Moscow-based outreach project led by MSF-Holland. Until 2003, she worked in the harm reduction project of MSF-Holland/AFEW as an informational manager and trainer. From 2004 until 2007, Dasha was the leader of the drug users’ organization “Kolodets” where coordinated projects around drug policy and legislative change in the Russian Federation, advocacy for opioid substitution treatment and access to HIV treatment and a peer-driven case management project. Dasha’s 14 years’ experience in harm reduction includes both fieldwork with drug users and collaboration with governmental institutions, policy work and management of non-governmental organizations. In her current position as a Deputy Director for Policy and Advocacy of Eurasian Harm Reduction Network, Dasha focuses on human rights of people who use drugs and community mobilization. Alternate Delegate Bryan has been involved with the HIV NGO field since 1983 as a doctoral psychology student in San Francisco. He founded the first HIV support groups in Vancouver and became Chair of the Board of AIDS Vancouver Island, one of the first HIV organizations in the world to be involved with needle exchange work for people living with HIV. He moved to the UK to become the CEO of Naz Project London, the largest and longest established HIV NGO in the UK working predominantly with migrants. Bryan has collaborated with several local and national UK partners, including the National Health Service, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/AIDS, and many NGOs. He has extensive experience working on HIV with migrants, primarily with the access needs of youth, MSM and female populations. In 2006, Bryan directed a major sexual health study in England that involved 3,000 young people that helped to define a model for youth peer work that has been used in schools and colleges. He worked further to pilot peer work with young migrant MSM; this work has now been adopted in HIV prevention within some regions of the UK National Health Service. Bryan is originally from Guyana and has been a resident of the UK since 2001. He is an active member of the European AIDS Treatment Group.
Ms. Dasha Ocheret
Eurasian Harm Reduction Network, Lithuania
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Mr. Bryan Teixeira
European AIDS Treatment Group, United Kingdom
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Latinoamérica y el Caribe Main Delegate Alessandra Nilo is a journalist with an academic specialization in communications and health. As a director and writer, she is the author of more than forty video productions and social marketing campaigns. She is co-founder and Executive Director of Gestos – HIV+, Communication and Gender Issues, an NGO created in 1993 in Recife, Brazil that promotes and defends the human rights of people living with HIV in the context of sexual citizenship, gender equity and social justice. Alessandra is currently the Regional Secretariat of LACCASO, the Latin American and Caribbean Council of AIDS Organizations. Since 2001, Alessandra has engaged in United Nations processes by publicizing the Declaration of Commitment on HIV and AIDS, utilizing it as tool to monitor and evaluate the implementation of national policies. To that end, in 2003, she developed the UNGASS-AIDS Forum platform in Brazil, which was later expanded to Asia, Africa and the Caribbean and today is being used in sixteen countries as an advocacy and research tool to support a south-to-south network of AIDS and women activists. She has represented civil society in the Brazilian national delegations to the High Level Meetings on HIV and AIDS since 2001. Over the past 10 years, Alessandra has strived to promote the integration of sexual and reproductive health and rights policies into a multi-sector development platform for fighting AIDS and has dedicated her time to improving and increasing women’s influence on AIDS policy decision-making processes at local, national and international levels. Some of her efforts have focused on achieving greater and more qualified participation of AIDS groups in the promotion and surveillance of the Cairo Plan of Action, of the Millennium Development Goals and of the commitments made to eliminating HIV and AIDS. Alessandra is also member of the RESURJ, an international alliance of feminist activists seeking full implementation of international commitments to secure all women’s and young people’s health and sexual and reproductive rights. Alessandra developed many activities in the World Social Forum, becoming a reference in discussions related to AIDS and development. She organized various seminars and training activities on the linkages among trade, health and intellectual property. The result was the creation of a coalition of activists in Latin America that are currently organized under the slogan of the campaign “Healthcare is not for Trading” (Salud no Es Comercio). Alternate Delegate Mabel Bianco is a feminist medical doctor, with a Masters in Public Health and specializes in Epidemiology. In 1989, she founded FEIM: Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer, a women’s NGO in Argentina that develops research, advocacy, training, and fieldwork on women’s issues, particularly in Sexual and Reproductive Health including HIV/AIDS. Since its creation, FEIM participates in national, regional and international networks, such as: National Network of Youth and Adolescents for Sexual and Reproductive Health (REDNAC); Latin American and the Caribbean Women’s Health Network (LACWHN) (Board member 1991-99); International AIDS Women’s Caucus (IAWC) (Coordinator since 1992); Latin American and the Caribbean AIDS Service Organizations (LACCASO) (since 1993 and Regional Secretary 1997-9) and the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) (since 1993). FEIM has NGO consultative status in the United Nations ECOSOC, and as President of FEIM, Mabel has participated in United Nations Conferences such as the Women’s Conferences since Nairobi to Beijing and also in the ICPD. Since 2002, she has been a member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights. She was a board member of International Women’s Health Coalition (2002-8) and Vice Chair of the Board (2008-10), as well as a member of Global Steering Committee of the World AIDS Campaign from 2006 to 2010. She participated in the Task Force of the President of the UN General Assembly for UNGASS on HIV/AIDS 2006. She is currently on the Board of CHANGE, and is regional Focal Point of the GEAR Campaign as well as co-coordinator of the international campaign “Women Won’t Wait. End HIV & Violence Against Women. NOW!” As Coordinator of the IAWC, in 2009-2010 she founded and coordinated Women ARISE, a global coalition of diverse women’s networks/groups to strengthen women’s and girls’ issues and voices at the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna. Since 2009, she is a member of the Developing Country NGO Delegation to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Prior to founding FEIM, Mabel was Deputy Professor in the School of Public Health, Buenos Aires University (1969 –1977) as well as Chief of the Research Department at the Epidemiological Center of the National Academy of Medicine (1981-85) in Argentina. She is the founder and former Coordinator of the Women, Health, and Development Program, National Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (1983-89) and former Director of the Executive Unit Coordination of HIV/AIDS in the National Ministry of Health (2000-2001). In 2005, she received the National Award for Outstanding Women in Health-Social Category from the National Ministry of Health and, in 2006, FEIM received the Red Ribbon Award.
Ms. Alessandra Nilo
Gestos – HIV+, Communication and Gender, Brazil
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Dr. Mabel Bianco
Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM), Argentina
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Norte América Main Delegate Ebony Johnson represents the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW Global) as the North American Community Liaison. In her work, Ebony strives to build the capacity of women living with HIV to be the guiding forces in their health, rights and quality of life as well as meaningful contributors in policy, programming and services that impact or enhance the lives of women and girls infected with or affected by HIV. With the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), as Chair of the Perinatal HIV Elimination working group, Ebony partners with the CDC, HHS and other US government agencies with the goals to: increase access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services; propel human rights from policy to practice; eliminate vertical transmission; expand HIV prevention; increase provider sensitivity; expand maternal health guidelines; and strengthen HIV/STI testing services. Most importantly, this work aims to broaden provider knowledge on and to engage women living with HIV to understand their unique needs around preconception care by creating innovative messaging to reduce stigma amongst medical and social service providers. She is inspired to address the myriad of social, financial, educational, health challenges and gender inequities experienced by women and girls and to support strong mothers, families and communities. After a decade of working with women in the US and globally who, because of their HIV status, have been forcefully sterilized, ejected from their homes, victimized at the hands of partners and treated inhumanely by providers whom are entrusted with their care, Ebony firmly believes there is no room for intolerance, ignorance or lack of appreciation for life and rights. Through the PCB Delegation, Ebony is committed to working to promote inclusive, humane and compassionate policies and practices for people living with HIV and for all people who are impacted by HIV world-wide in order to restore dignity, humanity and health. Alternate Delegate Charles King is one of the founders and the President of Housing Works, Inc. a minority-controlled, community-based, not-for-profit organization that provides a full range of services including housing, health care, mental health services, chemical dependency services, legal advocacy and job training and employment for homeless men, women and children living with HIV/ AIDS. Housing Works is one of the largest community-based AIDS services organization in the United States and currently services over 5,000 people every year. He is the Co-president of the AIDS Day Services Association of NYS and, in that capacity, helped to found AMIDA Care, the only community-based Special Needs Plan for people living with AIDS and HIV in New York. Since 2004, Charles has chaired the Visioning Taskforce of the National AIDS Housing Coalition, which has hosted seven national and international research and policy summits on housing and HIV/AIDS. Charles was one of the founding conveners of the Campaign to End AIDS, a chaordic platform for grassroots AIDS activism across the United States. Prior to the incorporation of Housing Works in June 1990, Charles served as Staff Attorney to the New York Coalition for the Homeless; as Assistant Pastor to Immanuel Baptist Church in New Haven, CT; as Director of an emergency center for abused children in Roundrock, TX; and as Minister of Street Ministries at First Baptist Church in San Antonio, TX. Charles holds both a Law Degree and a Master of Divinity from Yale University and is an ordained Baptist Minister.
Ms. Ebony Johnson
International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), United States
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Mr. Charles King
Housing Works, Inc., United States
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