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Launch of China Red Ribbon Beijing Forum on HIV and Human Rights
From UNAIDS China (via Roy Wadia)
05-Jul-2010
Government and civil society partnership, fostering candid and open debate, critical to success
China Red Ribbon Beijing Forum: Chinese Government and Civil Society Join Hands in Responding to AIDS, a Further Sign of the Strengthening of China’s AIDS Response
Beijing, 5th July, 2010 – The China Red Ribbon Beijing Forum was launched today to bring together government and civil society in a long-term partnership to offer innovative ideas from a rights-based perspective and strengthen the national response to HIV and AIDS. The Forum, which is the first such joint approach to HIV in China, held its inaugural meeting, attended by Vice Minister of Health Yin Li and representatives of civil society organizations.
Vice Minister Yin Li said, “The Chinese government places great importance on the AIDS response, and national leaders are setting a strong example in advocating and driving all sectors of society to protect the human rights of people living with HIV and AIDS, reducing stigma and discrimination and leading the way forward. The government has set out specific requirements in a range of policies and regulations.”
Dr. Wang Longde, president of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association and chair of the Forum’s Interim Steering Committee noted, “Only by adopting a people-centred approach, by ensuring the protection of people’s rights, can strategies and measures in our AIDS response be fully implemented, the scope of our response be expanded, and the lives of those living with or affected by HIV be improved.”