Technical Working Group

HIV/AIDS Technical Working Group (TWG)
The HIV/AIDS Technical Working Group brings together participants from
international and local NGOs, bilateral donors, foundations, the UN family, and
PLWHAs groups who share resources and experience, engage in planning, and form
partnerships for HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy.
The working group meets every two months. The facilitation is conducted by
representatives from international NGOs and rotates every six months. In addition to the
partnership between group members, partnership with government also occurs at the
national and provincial level through individual organizational collaboration.

There is an electronic TWG e-mail information service. HIV/AIDS Technical Working Group hivaids-twg Address to post message: hivaids-twg@ngocentre.org.vn. List information page: http://mailman.ngocentre.org.vn/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hivaids-twg

The TWG has six sub-groups, which meet about every two months:

- Care and Treatment
- Men Have Sex with Men (MSM)
- Greater Involvement of People Living with and Affected by AIDS (GIPA)
- Harm Reduction/05/06 centres
- Sexuality and Gender
- Communications and HIV

Below is the listing of the sub-group chairpersons and their contact details:

Reports for 2005 - Reports for 2006

Reports for 2008

TWG Main Meeting Reports:

July

• Agenda - 16 July 2008 (bản tiếng Việt)
• List of participants [pdf]
• Minutes - 16 July 2008 (bản tiếng Việt)

Presentations:

• Contexts of Injecting Drug Use & HIV in Vietnam - Jason Eligh (UNODC)/ David Jacka (WHO) (bản tiếng Việt)
• Community Recovery Support Program in Hanoi - Le Nhan Tuan, Ha Noi AIDS Center (bản tiếng Việt)
• Pilot Methadone substitution treatment program in Vietnam - VAAC (bản tiếng Việt)

May

• Agenda - 21 May 2008 (bản tiếng Việt)
• List of participants [pdf]
• Minutes - 21 May 2008 (bản tiếng Việt)

Presentations:

• Redefining AIDS in Asia: Crafting an effective response - JVR Prasada Rao, UNAIDS RST AP (bản tiếng Việt)
• Coordination and HIV: The Vietnamese Response - Eamonn Murphy, UNAIDS Viet Nam (bản tiếng Việt)
• Coordination of HIV/AIDS Program: A continuum of prevention-care network approach for PLHIV in Hai Phong - Dr Vu Van Cong, Hai Phong PAC (bản tiếng Việt)

March

• Agenda – 12 March 2008 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• List of participants [pdf]
• Minutes - 12 March 2008 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Minutes – 14 January 2008 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Presentations:

• Youth and HIV in Viet Nam - Margaret Sheehan (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Research on at-risk youth - Lisa Sherburne from Save the Children US (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Dance4life - Jacqueline Bunt from WPF (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

January

• Agenda – 16 Jan 2008 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• List of participants [pdf]
• Minutes – 14 November 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Presentations:

• iBCC: a Comprehensive Approach to Empowering Social Norms in Vietnam - PSI (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Population Council’s Prenstation (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Reports for 2007

TWG Main Meeting Reports:

November

• Agenda – 14 November 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• List of participants [pdf]
• Minutes – 12 September 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Presentations:

• National Action plan on harm redcution intervention for HIV prvention in 2007 - 2010 period - Dr Dương Quốc Trọng (Bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Experiences and achievements of Australia in hiv harm reduction interventions - Lan Anh (Bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

September

• Agenda – 12 September 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• List of participants [pdf]
• Minutes – 18 July 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Presentations:

• Political Leadership oriented to HIV&AIDS - Dr Vo Dinh Vinh(Bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Overview of Epidemic and Response in Asia and the Pacific - Eamonn Murphy (Bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• ICAAP 8 Report - Akiko Takai (Bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• GIPA Call to Action at ICAAP 8 - Trịnh Thị Thúy Ngân (Bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Religious and Cultural barriers - Trịnh Vân Khánh (Bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

July

• Agenda – 18 July 2007 [pdf]
• List of participants [pdf]
• Minutes – 16 May 2007 [pdf]

May

• Agenda – 16 May 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• List of participants [pdf]
• Minutes – 4 April 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Presentations:

• Development, Mobility and HIV along Route 9 in Laos and Vietnam (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
  • Report upon which this presentation was based

April

• Agenda – 4 April 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• List of participants [pdf]
• Minutes – 4 April 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Presentations:

• National Framework for Monitoring and Evaluation of the National HIV/AIDS Program - Dr Nguyen Thanh Long (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

January

• Agenda - 24 January 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• List of participants [pdf]
• Minutes - 24 January 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Presentations:

• Coordination, management and utilization of foreign assistance for HIV/AIDS prevention in Viet Nam (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Subgroup Reports:

MSH / MSM:

• Report - 23 January 2008 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Report - 04 June 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Report - 05 February 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

GIPA:

• Report - 04 March 2008 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Report - 11 January 2008 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Report - 11 July 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Report - 09 May 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Report - 09 March 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Care and Treatment:

• Report - 28 January 2008 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Report - 12 April 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
  • List of participants [pdf]
  • Current HIV/AIDS care and treament in Viet Nam -Nguyen Van Kinh, VAAC [pdf]
  • Current status of ART implementation at PEPFAR supported sites - Mr. David Khul, MSH [pdf]
  • Update of CD4 counters in Viet Nam - Dr Trieu Van Chinh, Global Fund Project, and Dr. Ritu Shrivastava, PEPFAR. [pdf]

Gender and Sexuality:

• Report - 06 March 2008 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Report - 10 January 2008 (bản tiếng Việt)[pdf]
• Report - 12 June 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Report - 10 May 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Harm Reduction / 05 - 06 Center:

• Report Harm Reduction - 13 March 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

HIV and Communications (formerly Media):

• Report - 06 March 2008 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Report - 04 May 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Report - 05 March 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Report - 18 January 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

  TWG Lunchtime Seminar

26 August 2008: Strengthening the Civil Society Response to HIV in Viet Nam: Challenges and Opportunities

• Civil Society in Viet Nam: An Overview (Eamonn Murphy - UNAIDS Country Director) (Bản tiếng Việt)
• Community REACH Vietnam Program: Financial, Technical, and Capacity Building Support for VNGOs and CBOs under PEPFAR (Diana Measham - Country Representative, Pact Vietnam) (Bản tiếng Việt)

29 Jul 2008: Experiences in providing HIV outreach services for hard to reach populations in Hanoi’

• Outreach Prevention (Phuong Vu Hao - Mobile Team Leader, Tay Ho Day Care Centre) (Bản tiếng Việt)
• Health and VCT Service Outreach to Street-based Youth in Ha Noi (Dr Thu Giang - LIGHT) (Bản tiếng Việt)

  PEPFAR Lunchtime Seminar

May

• Viet Nam's Law on Drug and its Relevance to HIV (Jason Elight - UNODC)

  HIV Technical Working Group Seminar

February

TWG Seminar on Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria and the forthcoming 7th Round of the GFATM

• Agenda - 28 February 2007 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Presentations

• The GFATM Project Proposal Process, and Round 7 (March – July 2007): Perspective from the Global Fund Secretariat (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• Brief review of Technical Review Panel Comments on Rounds 1-6 (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]
• The Viet Nam GFATM Project Proposal Experience (bản tiếng Việt) [pdf]

Link to Global Fund Round 6 proposal for Vietnam