UNAIDS PCB Meeting opens in Geneva; Indian official delegates absent.

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UNAIDS PCB Meeting opens in Geneva; Indian official delegates absent.

18th UNAIDS Program Coordinating Board (PCB) meeting opened in

Geneva to review the work of the UNAIDS for the last year and to

plan for the next " 25 years " .

As India is the country with maximum number of people living with

HIV/AIDS and one of the member of the PCB, the Indian official

delegates absence was conspicuous in this meeting.

UNAIDS is guided by a Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) which

serves as its governing body. The PCB has representatives of 22

governments from all regions of the world, the ten UNAIDS

Cosponsors, and five nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including

associations of people living with HIV/AIDS. UNAIDS is the first

United Nations programme to include NGOs in its governing body. The

PCB holds a regular session once a year in Geneva, and in alternate

years holds thematic sessions outside Geneva, as requested by the

members.

The 18 th PCB is meeting in Geneva, switerland 27-28 June 2006.

The official Indian delegation was supposed to be lead by HE.

Swashpawn Sing, the Indian Ambassador to the UN Permanent Mission of

India.

The details of the UNAIDS PCB meeting is available at the following

url

http://www.unaids.org/en/AboutUNAIDS/Governance/20060518-pcb18.asp

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At the PCB meeting in Geneva