LEAHN has convened a one-day Consultation on Police and HIV, to be held in conjunction with the 2nd Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference in Amsterdam this October. Invited delegates representing all sectors involved in the HIV response, including UN agencies, civil society networks and organisations, INGOs and NGOs, will meet with LEAHN staff and Country Focal Points from 15 countries to discuss all aspects of the police role in partnerships to prevent HIV transmission and protect the rights of those at risk. As well as our LEAHN colleagues, there will be key police delegates also from a further ten African and Eastern European countries joining us.
The Consultation will generate a Statement from all these sectors, complementing and supporting the LEAHN Police Statement of Support, and indicating that the police partnership in the HIV response is valued and seen as necesaary by everyone involved in combating HIV and caring for those infected. It is an indication of the growing strength of LEAHN, and its rapidly growing recognition by the international HIV/AIDS community, that so many key players can be brought together under LEAHN’s auspice to consider such an important issue.
Co-organisers of the Consultation are the Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health, the International Development Law Organization, and Birkbeck School of Law at the University of London. Support for the Consultation is coming from UNDP, UNODC, UNAIDS, COC Nederland and Aids Fonds, Netherlands.