Ban Ki Moon's Special Envoy meets PNAC Execom

The UN Secretary General's Special Envoy on HIV and AIDS for Asia and the Pacific, Mr JVR Prasada Rao, speaking at the Executive Committee Meeting of the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC), the Philippines highest policy making body on AIDS, 28 August 2013.

He emphasized that the country's current HIV problem is not insurmountable, noting that policies, plans, drugs and prevention technologies are all available and within reach.  He called for stronger political will to simply do what needs to be done, including improving quality and accessibility of services, increasing resources, and allocating these to programmes that would make an impact on the trajectory of the epidemic.

(seated l-r: Dr Ferchito Avelino, Director of the PNAC Secretariat; Ms Luiza Carvalho, UN Resident Coordinator in the Philippines; Dr. Janette Garin, Undersecretary of the Department of Health; Mr Rao; Ms Teresita Marie Bagasao, UNAIDS Country Coordinator; Dr Annie Innumerable, Head of Quezon City Health Department)

Mr JVR Prasada Rao, UN Secretary General's Special Envoy on HIV and AIDS for Asia and the Pacific, with the members of Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) Executive Committee and Secretariat, 28 August 2013.