Re: HIV/AIDS and 11th five year plan (2007- 2012)

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends,

It is very important for the various Ngos working on the issue of HIV/AIDS to

put their recommendation together at the soonest, i.e. by next week if it has to

be considered by the Planning Commission.

I would suggest one of you, perhaps, Naz as it is based in Delhi to be the focal

organisation to get all the recommendations, collate it and send it to the

steering group on health and the working group on the subject.

Butterflies and Prayas had organised a All India Child Protection NGOs

consultations in 5 regions,6 states and 2 children's consultations to feed into

the Eleventh 5 Year Plan. We have shared the report with all concerned

ministries and Planning Commission members.

We are organising a press conference on Saturday (5th Aug.) at press club to

share our recommendations with the press. In all our consultations, we

unfortunately did not get substantial

recommendations on HIV/AIDS issue excepting for generic suggestions.

We had asked the Ngos working on this subject who had participated to get back

to us with clearly articulated recommendations and proposals. Un fortunately we

did not get them and since time was running out we could not pursue it further.

However, it is important to share your concerns and recommendations with the

Planning Commission. If there is no time to go through the exercise of

collating. you could still send in your individual recommendations to the PC

members.

Best Wishes,

Rita Panicker

e-mail: <ritap@...>

[Guest guest]

Dear friends,

I endorse Rita Panicker's idea, that " It is very important for the various Ngos

working on the issue of HIV/AIDS to put their recommendation together at the

soonest "

But it would be great if a Working Group take it up and involve the NGOs/CBOs

working in the field around the country?

Regards,

Bhawani

Bhawani Shanker Kusum

Secretary & Executive Director

Gram Bharati Samiti (GBS)

NGO Delegate for Asia Pacific, UNAIDS PCB

Amber Bhawan, Amber 302028

Jaipur India

Tel.: 91-141-2531242, Fax: 91-141-2530719

E-mail: gbsbsk@...

www.gbsjp.org