Day 1 UNAIDS PCB Meeting - 22 June 2009

Opening Plenary Remarks

Chair of session:

“Discussion on the migrants and mobile populations [MMPs] is crucial as they often excluded from the agenda of HIV/AIDS prevention, focusing on various intersections including vulnerability and human rights of migrants.”

“National policies and programs need to include particular groups such as MMPs in order to address their vulnerability.”

Deputy Executive Director of UNAIDS Secretariat:

“Mobility does not make people vulnerable; it’s the situation that had made them vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. The myth of migrants bringing in the infection had hampering the stigmatisation on MMPs.”

“We are talking about real people, real problems and real issues here…”

Challenges: to try to recognize the diversity on the MMPs issues.