Newsletter 5th ICHCCfor PLWHA

June 11, 2001

NEWSLETTER - Issue 1: The 5th international Conference on Home and Community

Care for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS

Dear all,

Today we launch the first of what will be a regular newsletter for the much

awaited - 'Fifth International Conference on Home and Community Care for

Persons Living with HIV/AIDS' to be held from 17-20 December, 2001. This time,

for the first time, the conference will be held in a developing country - in the

city of Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand.

What is it that makes this conference stand out? It raises more practical issues

- on how communities can care for people living with HIV/AIDS, whether at home

or in a hospice. How to maintain and enhance their quality of life, as a part of

the community. There will be skill building sessions, empowering visits and a

wide array of community-based activities to get involved in. We will inform you

of these events as time nears.

The theme of the conference 'The Power of Humanity' is appropriate in the

context of how Thailand and other developing countries have faced the onslaught

of this disease. The three sub-themes are:

1. Needs, Aspirations and Rights

2. Care and Support

3. Building Partnerships

The conference will truly be an international platform for information and best

practice exchange. We request you to send in abstracts as soon as possible,

remembering that the deadline of receiving abstracts is 31st August 2001.

Please visit our website at http//www.hiv2001.com for online registration

Online booking for empowering visits and information on skill building sessions

and satellite symposium will be available very soon. You may send abstracts by

email or by post to the Secretariat. Please send all filled in forms. Contact

for Registration (Participant, Media, Scholarship application, Abstracts,

Accommodation) HIV 2001 Conference Secretariat

C/o WHO Office: Ministry of Public Health, Tiwanond Road, Nonthaburi 11000,

Thailand. Tel: (66 2) 590 1525, (66 2) 590 1520; Fax: (66 2) 590 1525

Email: hiv2001@...

We invite you to participate .Be it from distant countries or next door.

SHARE how you CARE.

Subidita Chatterjee

Conference Content Coordinator

subidita@...

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