Abuja +5
Efforts are taking place across Africa to enhance civil society involvement in reviewing progress on the targets laid out in the Abuja Summits of 2000 and 2001. The primary goal of the 2000/1 declarations was to arrest and reverse the morbidity and mortality rates due to HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. A Summit of African Heads of State and Government on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria is taking place in Abuja on 01 and 02 of May 2006 to take stock of Africa’s performance towards these goals. A group of agencies is working to make this meeting more effective and to increase the pressure on Africa’s governments and multilateral agencies to start delivering.
This group of agencies is becoming increasingly organised and is now working under the title of the Civil Society Coalition on Abuja plus Five. This coalition came about as key African civil society organisations, including JAAIDS and Panos, started communicating on the need to work on Abuja. The World AIDS Campaign is keen to support and publicise the work of this group. Civil society engagement with the Abuja+5 summit is of paramount importance. While Goverments and Heads of state review the progress made in achieving the targets agreed upon at the previous Abuja Summits, civil society should be scrutinizing their work and pushing for more commitment, and clear explanations where there have been failings.
Roundtable Summary from ICASA 2005
The 14th International Conference on HIV/AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) was held in December 2005 in Abuja Nigeria. The conference the civil society and media a chance to share information pertaining to the monitoring processes for the declarations on HIV and AIDS and develop strategies for further action to hold leaders accountable. Below is the summary report from a Roundtable at the ICASA Conference called, " Keeping the Promise? Accountability in relation to UNGASS and Abuja Declaration on HIV/AIDS."
Outcomes from the Abuja Summit
The World AIDS Campaign support team participated in an important meeting in Abuja this May.
Recommendations of the Forum of the Civil Company to the conference of the Heads of State and Government
We, representatives of the civil society, joined together in prelude to the ordinary session of the conference of the Heads of States and governments of the African Union, after a meticulous examination of the HIV/AIDS situation in Africa, the call of the Abuja and Joint African Position resulting from the Abuja Consultations of May 2006, we recommend to the conference of Heads of State and governments:
African Summit on AIDS Malaria and TB (ABUJA +5)
ABUJA 2-4 May 2006
The main objective of the Summit of African Heads of State and Government on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria is to review the progress made in achieving the targets agreed upon at the previous Abuja Summits of 2000 and 2001 on Malaria and on HIV/AIDS, TB and Other Related Infectious Diseases respectively. The primary goal of the 2000/1 declarations was to urgently arrest and reverse the morbidity and mortality rates due to HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, and clear targets were set for the effective control of these three diseases.
