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This report has been prepared by the UNAIDS Program Coordinating Board’s NGO Delegation, on a meeting that was held in October titled “Common Ground”. The objective was to bring together advocates from different constituencies and communities (women’s rights, HIV, sexual minorities) to find Common Ground in order to reach universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support of HIV/AIDS.
"Overview
The NGO Delegation of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) hosted an OSI-funded meeting to bring together activists engaged in networks or constituencies of women, gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers (male, female and transgender), transgender people and people living with HIV from all regions of the world to establish a common ground for working together. The idea to hold a “healing meeting” came from the 2009 NGO Delegates in light of the tensions over the meaning of gender in discussions at the UNAIDS board meeting. The purpose of this meeting was to find common ground among activists in the pursuit of policies and programs that support multiple constituencies: all women and girls in their diversities and experience, gay and other men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who use drugs, people living with HIV, and sex workers. The meeting, which became known as “common ground,” was intended to provide space to work through some key issues and agree on areas of mutual support to move toward universal access in this critical review year and beyond..."
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