May 25, 2006: Exhibition "HIV and children"
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Exhibition ‘HIV and children’ |
15-17 May 2006. Exhibition ‘HIV and children’ took place in Moscow, in the framework of the Eastern European and Central Asian AIDS Conference. The exhibition was organized by the UNICEF and UNAIDS.
More than 1500 delegates from all CIS countries as well as from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and many other countries took part in the conference and could get acquainted with the materials at the ‘HIV and children’ exhibition. Organized under the slogan of the Global Campaign ‘Unite for Children. Unite against AIDS’, it was the only one focused specifically on children.
Over 2500 copies of UNICEF supported publications on HIV prevention and treatment among adolescents and infants were distributed at exhibition stands. The exhibition materials presented experience from Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and other CEE/CIS countries.
The conference organizing committee has published a statement that said: “We are concerned about the increasing number of new HIV cases among young women and the number of children at risk of HIV infection through vertical transmission. We consider, as the most important target as of today is to ensure a maximum attainable scientifically founded national standard of prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, particularly groups of population mostly vulnerable to HIV infection’.
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Exhibition ‘HIV and children’ |
The exhibition ‘HIV and Children’ attracted attention of political and civil society leaders, researchers and health professionals, people living with HIV and representatives of civil society from the region.
The exhibition is a part of the global campaign ‘Unite for Children. Unite against AIDS’. The campaign was launched in October 2005 by UNICEF and UNAIDS and to push children and adolescents to the top of the AIDS agenda and to support efforts to halt and reverse HIV transmission among children and adolescents and ease the impact of infection on those already infected.
For more information please contact
Tigran Yepoyan,
Project Coordinator,
HIV/AIDS,
UNICEF Russia,
tyepoyan@unicef.org,
tel + 7 495 4808
