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Expert Group on HIV/AIDS of NDPHS

Expert Group on HIV/AIDS of NDPHS. Progress report 14.9.2007. Members. Pauli Leinikki, National Public Health Institute, Finland – chairman Outi Karvonen, STAKES, Finland – ITA Svein Gunnar Gundersen, Sorlandet Hospital, Norway Anna Marzek-Boguslawska, National AIDS Centre, Poland

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Expert Group on HIV/AIDS of NDPHS

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  1. Expert Group on HIV/AIDS of NDPHS Progress report 14.9.2007

  2. Members • Pauli Leinikki, National Public Health Institute, Finland – chairman • Outi Karvonen, STAKES, Finland – ITA • Svein Gunnar Gundersen, Sorlandet Hospital, Norway • Anna Marzek-Boguslawska, National AIDS Centre, Poland • Tatiana Smolskaya, Northwest District AIDS Centre, Russia • Saulius Chaplinskas, Lithuanian AIDS Centre

  3. Members • Ulrich Marcus, Robert Koch –Institut, Germany • Marius Domeika, Uppsala University, Sweden • Kristi Rüütel, National Institute for Health Development, Estonia • Andris Ferdats, AIDS Prevention Centre, Latvia • Jean-Elie Malkin, GIP Esther, France • Henrique Barros, National Coordinator for HIV/AIDS, Portugal

  4. Expert Group Meetings • March 14-15 in Berlin, Germany • October 9-10 in Porto, Portugal

  5. Project status • Projects involving Finland – 6 • Barents Projects involving Norway – 9 • Norwegian projects in St. Petersburg – 5 • Norwegian project in Kaliningrad – 1 • Projects involving Sweden – 1 completed, 1 going on

  6. Project status • Projects involving Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – 3 • Projects involving France – 1 • One Danish proposal • Other proposals (14) • Poland – 2; Norway – 6; Estonia – 2; Russia – 1; • Lithuania – 1, Finland - 2

  7. New Finnish proposals • Controlling the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Barents and Northern Dimension Partnership Programme regions. Phase II. Coordination: Finland. Project proposal for 2008-2010. • Strengthening of intersectoral action to fight drug abuse and drug related harm in Murmansk Region 2008-2010. Coordination: Finland. Project proposal.

  8. Controlling the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Barents and Northern Dimension Partnership Programme Regions Phase II

  9. Financing: • the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland • Target Countries: Barents and Northern Dimension Partnership regions • Target regions in Russia: Northwest Russia, especially Murmansk Region • Implementing organisation (Finland): • International Development Collaboration at STAKES

  10. Overall objectives • The spread of HIV/AIDS epidemic is under control in the target areas • Social, health, economic and security consequences of the epidemic are minimized

  11. Purpose • Coordination of activities in Northern Dimension and Barents regions to control HIV and AIDS and reduce harmful consequences

  12. Three components • Coordination of the Barents HIV/AIDS Programme • Further development of low threshold services in Murmansk and Kantalahti • Technical assistance to the HIV/AIDS Expert Group of NDPHS

  13. Other issues • Policy paper updated • Tb representative – open • Recruitment of new members – ongoing • Observers, e.g. Health Canada • Co-chair – open

  14. Other issues • Collaboration and coordination with other EGs • Prison Health EG • SIHLWA • Think Tank • Gotland meeting • Barents HIV/AIDS Programme • HIV/AIDS and human rights round table meeting • 2 steering committee meetings

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