United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) seminar was held on April the 15th in the framework of “HIV Epidemiological Surveillance and Estimation of Influence of Antiretroviral Therapy on HIV Epidemiological Situation in Russia. Improvement of HIV Epidemiological Surveillance, April 14-16, 2009” conference. It was chaired by Dr. M. V. Semenchenko (UNAIDS) and Dr. N. N. Nosov (Privolzhskiy Regional AIDS Centre of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation)

Sub-region have taken part in the 2-days workshop on M&E of HIV/AIDS responses by the civil society and enforcement of their role in the HIV/AIDS M&E work, and a one-day coordination meeting to build a forum of NGOs working in the field of HIV/AIDS response in the Sub-region and develop collaboration plan with each other and the government partners.