The Report of Civil Society Forum last session
30th of July, 2008
HIV/AIDS Civil Society Forum (CSF), is an informal advisory body established in 2005 by the European Commission (EC) to facilitate the participation of NGOs and networks, including those representing People Living with HIV/AIDS, in European policy development and implementation as well as to exchange information.
The members of the Civil Society Forum represent 40 organizations member-states of the European Union, as well as from accession countries and neighboring countries of the EU which are active on different intervention fields.
During April 8th-9th took place in Brussels the 7th CSF meeting. A representative of the Romanian Angel Appeal Foundation (RAA), attended this meeting as an active member of the forum.
The work agenda included among its topics also the last version of the Swiss Guide regarding the HIV/AIDS counseling, evaluation of the infectious level of the HIV infected people under the treatment, and also the finance of HIV/AIDS programs in Eastern Europe, the CSF's intervention priorities and also other topics proposed by the participants and considered a priority.
The conclusions of this meeting, the participants list, the interventions description, plan of the future activities and also the whitepapers sustained during the meeting can be found in the Civil Society Forum Report (version available only in English), available on http://www.aidsactioneurope.org/fileadmin/files/About_us/Background/20080704.pdf!
