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The AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific (ASAP) is the custodian and primary co-sponsor of the biennial International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP). It was born from the first conference in Canberra, Australia in 1990.
By the conclusion of the Colombo ICAAP in August 2007, eight ICAAPs will have been held. They include:
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1. Canberra 1990
2. New Delhi 1993
3. Chiang Mai 1995
4. Manila 1997
5. Kuala Lumpur 1999
6. Melbourne 2001
7. Kobe 2005
8. Colombo 2007
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As ICAAP remains ASAP's primary locus of business it continues to work towards the strengthening of future ICAAPs.
Accordingly, ASAP's role is necessarily both technical and administrative. Technically, ASAP undertakes advocacy sub-projects and activities that culminate in the potential to be the largest cross cutting advocacy commitment on HIV/AIDS in any region. Its activities support the exchange of ideas and knowledge through the gathering of social and medical scientists, governmental and non-governmental representatives, health care professionals, politicians, community leaders and political activists in search of better and more effective strategies and enhanced political commitment toward eliminating HIV/AIDS. In addition, using its institutional memory, ASAP is building up a resource to support and guide future hosts of the ICAAP. It has already, for example, published its Guidelines for Future Hosts of ICAAP.
We undertake advocacy projects and activities on HIV/AIDS throughout the region. Our activities support the exchange of ideas and knowledge in search of more effective strategies that enhance political commitment toward eliminating HIV/AIDS.
Some of our current work includes:
- overseeing and guiding arrangements toward future ICAAPs;
- publication of Occasional Papers on new issues surrounding HIV/AIDS; and,
- developing regional advocacy linkages and networks.
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