Response to HKCASO’s Comment and WUestions on the Mid-term Review of the Recommended HIV AIDS Strategies

(CFA Paper 12/2008-2011) Community Forum on AIDS Response to HKCASO’s Comments and Questions on the Mid-term Review of the Recommended HIV/AIDS Strategies for Hong Kong 2007 – 2011 Purpose This paper summarizes the responses with input from relevant parties to the comments and questions raised by the HKCASO in relation to the mid-term review of the recommended HIV / AIDS strategies for Hong Kong 2007 – 2011 that was thpresented in the 15 Meeting of the Community Forum on AIDS. The responses are put under corresponding comments and questions (in italic) for ease of reference. Overall Comments  The NGOs and the communities concerned, including HKCASO, have not been involved and their views were therefore not included in the review.  The focus of the paper was very government oriented and the roles of the NGOs or community-based groups were not highlighted sufficiently.  The perspective of the paper was not comprehensive to reflect what efforts/responses actually took place in the past two years. 2. The mid-term review serves a start to gather information relevant to the eight targets, for discussion and inviting feedback, comments and inputs. It is by no means a comprehensive account of what has been done towards the targets. The paper resented and discussed at the CFA meeting aims to invite views and inputs from NGOs and community workers, work of which is of paramount importance to the local AIDS response. This paper serves as a ...