WHO Report: Implementation of the Dublin Declaration
25th of August, 2008
A few days ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the Progress Report of Dublin Declaration's Implementation.
Carried out under the slogan "Breaking the barriers - the partnership to fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia" , the meeting was hosted in February 2004 in Ireland's capital, Dublin.
The representatives of the governments and civil society from the European and Asian states present at this meeting adopted at the end a declaration that resumes the conclusions of this meeting known under the Dublin Declaration.
Afterwards the documents had been acknowledge as having a programmatic and strategic importance, allowing HIV approach in ensuring the universal access to care and treatment, one of the Millennium Development Objectives.
The topic of the WHO's recently published report in collaboration with UNAIDS and other partners, is represented by the even implementation status of the general interventions lines stipulated by the Dublin Declaration.
Starting from the desideratum of ensuring the universal access to prevention, treatment and care effective, equal and accessible for everyone, the report aims to analyze some intermediary and final evaluation indicators of the obtained results.Only this way we can understand and appreciate the efforts in fighting and limiting the HIV infection and to be able to interpret in a realistic and constructive manner the relevant statistics data.
Presenting in a detailed manner the evolution features of HIV infection in the European Region of WHO, are being underlined the efforts made so far but also the difficulties and challenges that are still to be solved.
Another topic is represented by reasoning and highlighting the importance that the multi-sector collaboration and coordination of these efforts nationwide have, and also integrating these efforts in the general context of HIV/AIDS.
You can access a brief policy (policy brief), summarizing the approached issue and also the intervention lines that are to be approached from now on (the available version is in English).
