Bridging the Gap: Conference Workbook [International Conference on AIDS (12th: 1994: Geneva, Switzerland)]

C L O B A L
N, E T W Q R K
L V I N
The Global Network of People
Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+)
GNP+ has an overall goal to improve the
quality of life of people living with HIV/
AIDS by:
Lobbying: creating the opportunity to
bring the many voices of the epidemic to
appropriate and relevant platforms;
Linking: linking people with HIV/AIDS
with each other, as well as with other
organisations;
Sharing: creating opportunities for
people living with HIV/AIDS to meet.
GNP+ works in the 5 regions of the
world: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin
America/Caribbean and North America.
Each region has its own priorities and
programmes.
GNP+ Central Secretariat
P.O. Box 11726, 1001 GS,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [email protected]
/AS
INTERNATIONAL
The International AIDS Society
IAS represents scientists interested in
HIV and AIDS, and was founded in
1988 to organise the series of World
AIDS Conferences, such as Geneva '98,
Durban 2000 and Barcelona 2002, and
to support participation of people from
resource-poor countries in the International Conferences. IAS also arranges
continuing medical education on clinical
management and care, particularly in the
South, advocates drug accessibility and
public health interventions worldwide, counteracts discrimination, and

promotes the ethical aspects of research
and interventions.
IAS Secretariat
P.O. Box 5619
SE-114 86 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [email protected]
World Wide Web: www.ias.se

INTERNATIONAL
COUNCIL OF
SERVICE
ORGANIZATIONS
The International Council of AIDS
Service Organisations
ICASO is the international network for
community-based AIDS organisations
(CBOs), with particular emphasis on
communities with fewer resources and
within affected communities. The
ICASO network is made up of regional
secretariats and national focal points in
the international HIV/AIDS world for
gathering and disseminating information
and analysis on key issues, co-ordinating
the development of CBO/NGO
positions on these issues, and working
with key international agencies to ensure
that the concerns of CBOs and NGOs
around the world are articulated and
represented.
ICASO Central Secretariat
399 Church Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 2J6
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [email protected]
World Wide Web: www.web.net/-icaso/
icaso.html
The International Community of
Women Living with HIV/AIDS
The International Community of
Women Living with HIV/AIDS
The International Community of
Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
was created in July 1992 at the World
AIDS Conference in Amsterdam to
improve the situation of women living
with HIV/AIDS throughout the world.
It aims to unite HIV-positive women
around the issues which affect them all,
particularly those who are isolated;
encourage self-empowerment and selfsufficiency; challenge discrimination,
stigma and abuse; and ensure that HIVpositive women have a voice in decisions
likely to have an impact on their lives.
The ICW network has members in over
70 countries.
ICW
2c Leroy House, 436 Essex Road

London N1 3QP
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [email protected]
World Wide Web: www.icw.org

UNAIDS
UNICEF - UNDP ~ UNFPA
UNESCO * WHO * WORLD BANK
The Joint United Nations
Programme on HIV/AIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme
on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is the leading
advocate for global action on HIV/
AIDS. It brings together six UN agencies
in a common effort to fight the epidemic:
the UN's Children's Fund (UNICEF),
the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), the Population
Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation (UNESCO), the World
Health Organisation (WHO) and the
World Bank. UNAIDS mobilises the
responses to the epidemic of its six cosponsoring organisations and supplements
these efforts with special initiatives, by
sharing knowledge, skills and best
practice across boundaries.
UNAIDS
20, avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [email protected]
World Wide Web: www.unaids.org
Etat de Geneve

POST TENEBRA5S LUX

The Government of the
"Republique et Canton de Geneve"
Of all the European countries,
Switzerland has the highest declared rate
of AIDS cases, and the State of Geneva
ranks highest among the Swiss cantons.
This explains why the HIV/AIDS
question is critical to Geneva and
Switzerland.
In order to deal with the spread of
this disease, the Geneva Government has
adopted a model information policy and
has promoted measures for prevention and
treatment.
Respect for human rights and the
fight against all forms of discrimination
are central to Geneva's policy concerning
people with HIV/AIDS better to ensure
their right to live as full-fledged citizens.

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