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Latest Events
A Training Workshop for Palestinian Media Professionals on AIDS Bethlehem: UNDP Program of Assistance to the Palestinian people convened a training workshop for more than twenty Palestinian media professionals on means of effective responding to AIDS as a developmental challenge facing the Arab region. Saudi Arabia: Leadership for Limiting Risky Behaviors Among Youths Jeddah – 17 June 2010: For three consecutive days from 14 to 16 June 2010, the Charity Association for AIDS Patients in Saudi Arabia organized, in cooperation with the HIV/AIDS Regional Programme in the Arab States (HARPAS), a training workshop under the title of "Leadership for Limiting Risky Behaviors among Youths". The 7th Annual UNDP HIV Focal Points and Project Officers Meeting Ain El Sokna ( Egypt): On 4-6 May 2010, the Cairo-based UNDP HIV/AIDS Regional Programme in the Arab States (HARPAS) held its 7th Annual HIV Focal Points and Projects Officers Meeting for the Arab States in Egypt. Chahama’s Steering Committee holds its seventh meeting in Cairo Cairo – April 15th 2010: Members of Chahama’s Steering Committee discussed the strategic plan of the network for 2010 and 2011, the most significant achievements of the network, and the challenges it faced in the past two years. They also addressed future challenges and ways to overcome it. This meeting took place in Cairo (April 10th-12th 2010). Third Technical Meeting on Best ways to reach out to Most Vulnerable Groups. Cairo – March 10th 2010: Ninety Arab activists met in Cairo (1-4/3/2010) from various specialties and expertise (Religious Leaders; Muslims and Christians, Human Rights Activists, NGOs Activists, and Media community members), to discuss what the best ways are to go about reaching out to most vulnerable groups in the Arab States.

Latest Events

A Training Workshop for Palestinian Media Professionals on AIDS

Bethlehem: UNDP Program of Assistance to the Palestinian people convened a training workshop for more than twenty Palestinian media professionals on means of effective responding to AIDS as a developmental challenge facing the Arab region.

Saudi Arabia: Leadership for Limiting Risky Behaviors Among Youths

Jeddah – 17 June 2010: For three consecutive days from 14 to 16 June 2010, the Charity Association for AIDS Patients in Saudi Arabia organized, in cooperation with the HIV/AIDS Regional Programme in the Arab States (HARPAS), a training workshop under the title of "Leadership for Limiting Risky Behaviors among Youths".

The 7th Annual UNDP HIV Focal Points and Project Officers Meeting

Ain El Sokna ( Egypt): On 4-6 May 2010, the Cairo-based UNDP HIV/AIDS Regional Programme in the Arab States (HARPAS) held its 7th Annual HIV Focal Points and Projects Officers Meeting for the Arab States in Egypt.

Chahama’s Steering Committee holds its seventh meeting in Cairo

Cairo – April 15th 2010: Members of Chahama’s Steering Committee discussed the strategic plan of the network for 2010 and 2011, the most significant achievements of the network, and the challenges it faced in the past two years. They also addressed future challenges and ways to overcome it. This meeting took place in Cairo (April 10th-12th 2010).

Third Technical Meeting on Best ways to reach out to Most Vulnerable Groups.

Cairo – March 10th 2010: Ninety Arab activists met in Cairo (1-4/3/2010) from various specialties and expertise (Religious Leaders; Muslims and Christians, Human Rights Activists, NGOs Activists, and Media community members), to discuss what the best ways are to go about reaching out to most vulnerable groups in the Arab States.

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Issuing the First National Report on AIDS in Kuwait Soon

Cairo – Ahmed Balah – 6 June 2010: Kuwait announced the day before yesterday that it has terminated the first national report on the status of infection with HIV/AIDS virus. The content of the report will be disclosed soon.

El Hamawi: A Religious Leader must be part of the solution, not part of the problem

“In my own opinion, a religious leader should be part of the solution. He/She must not ever be part of the problem “. This is how Dr. Alaa El Hamawi – The Dean of Al Imam El Awza’e Faculty for Islamic Studies, and the Imam of Saladin El Ayoubi Mosque in Syria- views the mission of any religious leader in response to HIV and the confrontation of this disease. He sees it as a societal issue; everybody has to be part of. A religious leader must be like a doctor; to be a friend of the patient, and an enemy of the disease.

Regional Coordinator for the world AIDS Campaign

The World AIDS Campaign (WAC) is a global coalition of national, regional and international civil society groups united by the call for governments to honour their AIDS commitments. Under the slogan “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise”. The organisation is governed by a steering committee of global constituency-based networks and supported by a team of professional staff based partially in Cape Town, South Africa and partially in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and in other locations around the globe.. See the details

China lifts HIV, AIDS entry ban

Beijing, April 28, 2010: CHINA announced overnight that it had lifted travel restrictions for foreigners who suffer from HIV and AIDS ahead of the 2010 Expo.

Latest Initiatives
- L’initiative des Leaders Religieux Une réponse efficace au SIDA nécessite l’implication de l’ensemble des membres de la communauté agissant comme une force de complémentarité et de soutien. Parmi les piliers de cette communauté on trouve les Leaders Religieux, leur impact sur la communauté ne peut être négligé. Ils disposent de la légitimité, d’une présence historique et plus que cela ; ils participent à la définition des valeurs et des normes au sein de la société et influencent les comportements de la population et les politiques nationales en lien avec le VIH/SIDA. - Legislative Initiative The second event conducted in Algiers, Algeria 29-31 Oct. 2007 is part of a series of sub-regional workshops. Organized by UNDP/HARPAS in partnership with UNDP Algeria, ILO, and UNHCR, it gathered 60 parliamentarians from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. It built up on a previous initiative organized in November 2005, "The Legal Framework for HIV/AIDS ... - Initiative du Secteur Privé HIV/AIDS impacts are likely to concentrate on young adults in their most productive years. Thus, AIDS is projected as having the potential to become the second major cause of death among adults of working age in the world - including the Arab world - posing a serious economic threat. The epidemic is eroding productivity just at the time when developing countries, including most of the Arab countries, need to become more competitive to cope with rapid globalization. - Initiative des Professionnels des Medias et des Artistes Dans le monde Arabe, les medias sont une force dynamique et croissante contribuant au discours public actuel sur les problèmes de la région. Bien que le VIH/SIDA n’ait pas été considéré jusqu’à présent comme une préoccupation majeure, l’épidémie concentre d’avantage d’attention et doit obtenir d’avantage de considération entraînant un impact si les partenaires adéquats et l’audience médiatique sont mobilisés. - Women's Rights NGO Initiative Women in the Arab world are often discriminated against and facing numerous violations of their human rights, as identified in the Arab Human Development Report 2002 women's empowerment is one of the three deficits the Arab World is confronted with and if progress in the region is to be achieved, addressing gender inequalities is definitely one area where UNDP is targeting its efforts...

Latest Initiatives

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L’initiative des Leaders Religieux

Une réponse efficace au SIDA nécessite l’implication de l’ensemble des membres de la communauté agissant comme une force de complémentarité et de soutien. Parmi les piliers de cette communauté on trouve les Leaders Religieux, leur impact sur la communauté ne peut être négligé. Ils disposent de la légitimité, d’une présence historique et plus que cela ; ils participent à la définition des valeurs et des normes au sein de la société et influencent les comportements de la population et les politiques nationales en lien avec le VIH/SIDA.

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Legislative Initiative

The second event conducted in Algiers, Algeria 29-31 Oct. 2007 is part of a series of sub-regional workshops. Organized by UNDP/HARPAS in partnership with UNDP Algeria, ILO, and UNHCR, it gathered 60 parliamentarians from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. It built up on a previous initiative organized in November 2005, "The Legal Framework for HIV/AIDS ...

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Initiative du Secteur Privé

HIV/AIDS impacts are likely to concentrate on young adults in their most productive years. Thus, AIDS is projected as having the potential to become the second major cause of death among adults of working age in the world - including the Arab world - posing a serious economic threat. The epidemic is eroding productivity just at the time when developing countries, including most of the Arab countries, need to become more competitive to cope with rapid globalization.

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Initiative des Professionnels des Medias et des Artistes

Dans le monde Arabe, les medias sont une force dynamique et croissante contribuant au discours public actuel sur les problèmes de la région. Bien que le VIH/SIDA n’ait pas été considéré jusqu’à présent comme une préoccupation majeure, l’épidémie concentre d’avantage d’attention et doit obtenir d’avantage de considération entraînant un impact si les partenaires adéquats et l’audience médiatique sont mobilisés.

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Women's Rights NGO Initiative

Women in the Arab world are often discriminated against and facing numerous violations of their human rights, as identified in the Arab Human Development Report 2002 women's empowerment is one of the three deficits the Arab World is confronted with and if progress in the region is to be achieved, addressing gender inequalities is definitely one area where UNDP is targeting its efforts...

Right of Woman to Education and Access to Information

Cairo-: In cooperation with UNDP HIV/AIDS Regional Programme in the Arab States (HARPAS), Sout Al-Arab Radio presented a radio programme on the right of woman to education and access to information as well as the reflection of this on the status of women living with HIV/AIDS in the Arab States. The programme hosted Olfat Allam, Psychology Specialist at Al-Mokattam Hospital for Psychological Medicine.Allam underlined that this right is a fundamental one that contributes to protecting woman from a number of risks, amongst which comes being among groups that are more vulnerable to infection with the AIDS virus.

"Akhbar Misr" Highlights Circumstances of Women Living with HIV/AIDS

"Akhbar Misr" website narrates the story of a woman living with AIDS communicated to her through her husband who administers drug through injection. The reportage demonstrates that infection may have taken place as a result of domestic violence that may be practiced by the husband infected with the virus towards his wife, which limits her ability to negotiate with him and protect herself against communication of the disease to her.

Palestinian Media Sheds Light on the Workshop on Responding to AIDS

Palestinian news network and Ekhbariat Network for Media and Publishing shed light on the proceedings of the training workshop for Palestinian media professionals on responding to AIDS, which was convened in Bethlehem (Occupied Palestine) from 5 to 7 July 2010.Palestinian news network and Ekhbariat Network for Media and Publishing shed light on the proceedings of the training workshop for Palestinian media professionals on responding to AIDS, which was convened in Bethlehem (Occupied Palestine) from 5 to 7 July 2010.

Saudi Riyadh Newspaper: Governmental Institutions Carry the Message of Awareness with AIDS

Jeddah – 16 June 2010 – In a coverage presented to the proceedings of "Leadership Workshop for Overcoming Risky Behaviors among Youths", the Saudi "Riyadh" newspaper underlined that the workshop organized by the Saudi Charity Association for AIDS patients aims to convey the message of the Association on awareness with risky behaviors that may result in infection with the AIDS virus.

Al-Youm Al-Sabea Sheds Light on Women Living with HIV/AIDS Initiative

Al-Youm Al-Sabea sheds light on HIV/AIDS Regional Programme in the Arab States (HARPAS) initiative on the rights of women living with HIV virus in the Arab region. According to HARPAS regional coordinator Khadija Moalla's statement to Al-Youm Al-Sabea newspaper, the initiative comes within the framework of efforts exerted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to realize the Millennium Developmental Goals (MDGs), including granting rights to women on equal footings with men.

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