Being especially vulnerable to HIV infection, migrants (documented and undocumented) and ethnic minorities face serious problems in Europe 53 and Europe?s Neighbouring Countries. There are too many obstacles to the access of those populations to adequate HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. Those obstacles not only make them much more vulnerable but also prevent an effective control of the epidemic.

The expected outcomes of the National AIDS Coordinators October?s Conference are:
? Up-dated report on Migration and HIV policies and legislation in the countries of the WHO Europe region and neighbouring countries (EU member and non-member states).
? Technical report on cost-benefit of policies in place in the WHO Europe Region that promote universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services and programmes by migrant populations.
? Evaluation and validation of methods and indicators to monitor the implementation in Europe and Central Asia of the Dublin Declaration and agree on the follow up process (2006-2009).
? Check the possibility of harmonization of the guidelines and public policy answers concerning migrant populations in EU Member States National HIV/AIDS programmes in order to assure the continuity of the responses to health needs of migrant PLWHA or at risk in Europe

Special areas of concern for the community may not be covered in the Governmental Conference. These include vulnerable migrant populations (trafficked women, sex workers and prisoners), as well as ethnic minorities (Roma, Russian-speaking people outside of the Russian Federation, African/Black Diaspora, etc).

To guarantee that community concerns and views are taken into consideration at all levels we must engage in the political agenda on Migration and HIV in Europe.

To this end the EATG will organise a Community Conference, which will take place before the Governmental one in order to feed in our proposals, bringing together the relevant stakeholders from the community, policy makers, public health authorities and institutions.

We want to ensure concrete commitments towards Universal Access to prevention, treatment, care and support, for migrants and ethnic minorities in EU53 and EU Neighbouring Countries.

We want to enlighten that universal access is the only public health measure able to tackle down the epidemic, that it is cost-effective and evidence based and to get from European politicians and decision makers the recognition that the right to health care is a fundamental human right that needs urgent and concrete commitments.