UNAIDS - March 6, 2009

The meeting took place at UNAIDS Secretariat and was hosted by Michel Sidibe UNAIDS Executive Director with the participation of Dr Gennady Onischenko, Head of the Federal Service for Surveillance of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-being, Chief State Sanitary Physician of the Russian Federation and Craig McClure, Executive Director of the International AIDS Society. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) was represented by Urban Weber, Team Leader, Eastern Europe & Central Asia. Alena Peryshkina, Director, AIDS Infoshare, Russia also participated.

Discussions were held on key topics to be featured during the conference, the importance of regional collaboration and of building strong partnerships with civil society and others.

As conference co-chairs UNAIDS, the International AIDS Society and the Global Fund offered their support to the Government of Russia in the preparation of the event.

The October conference will be co-chaired by UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe, Dr Gennady G. Onishenko, Head of the Federal Service for Surveillance of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-being, Chief State Sanitary Physician of the Russian Federation, Craig McClure, Executive Director of the International AIDS Society and Dr Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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Related information:

Russian Federation - http://cms.unaids.org/unaids/en/CountryResponses/Countries/russia n_federation.asp

Feature stories:

2nd Eastern Europe and Central Asia AIDS Conference ends (05 May 2008) - http://ww2.aegis.org/news/unaids/2008/UN080501.html
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