ICAAP9 Opening Ceremony 09 August 2009
(from right to left: President of the Republic of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the First Lady Ani Bambang
Yudhoyono, President of ASAP Prof Myung-Hwan Cho, Chairman of the 9th ICAAP Local Organising Committee Dr
Zubairi Djoerban, UNAIDS Regional Director for Asia-Pacific JVR Prasada Rao and Executive Director of the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Michel Kazatchkine)
The 9th ICAAP was held from 9th to 13th August in Bali, Indonesia. 5,547 delegates from 78 countries in the region have
taken part in this five-day biennial event. The 9th ICAAP offered four main issues: understanding the epidemic and
strengthening prevention efforts; strengthening partnership for treatment, care and support; understanding and addressing
socio-cultural, economic and political determinants; as well as leadership and broadening the response. President of ASAP,
Myung-Hwan Cho emphasised the needs for consolidating our efforts, abolishing stigma and discrimination against HIV
positive, sex workers, MSM, lesbians, transgenders and people who inject drugs and also stressed the significance of harm
reduction programmes.
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