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Bali (Indonesia) -
The 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP9) was held from 9-13 August 2009 in Bali, Indonesia, bringing together people from various backgrounds in Asia and the Pacific region to meet and share knowledge, skills, ideas and research findings related to HIV/AIDS. Through this, ICAAP9 aimed to promote scientific excellence and inquiry; provide a forum for meaningful dialogue; foster accountability; encourage individual and collective action in addressing HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific; and ensure the sustainability of the response.
"Empowering People, Strengthening networks":
For more than 20 years countries around the world have faced the AIDS epidemic more or less alone. Best practices have been documented to help countries deal with their specific epidemics, but as the world becomes more globalized and country borders become more fluid, interventions that address mobility, migration and global and regional responses become more important.
For this reason, the theme for the Congress was
"Empowering People, Strengthening Networks". This refers to the importance of empowering people (both HIV-positive and HIV-negative vulnerable to HIV), and of strengthening networks and international cooperation, in order to counter the barriers presented by this increasingly globalized and interconnected world to a successful response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime at 9ICAAP: In the context of HIV/AIDS, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is responsible for coordinating and providing effective leadership and technical support in the areas of injecting drug use, prison settings, and trafficking in human beings.
UNODC Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific was involved in the following key events during ICAAP9:
Exhibition Booth: UNODC displayed its selected publications and related materials at the Joint UNAIDS Exhibition Booth at the 9th ICAAP, Bali, Indonesia.