Acknowledgments

MAP would like to express its gratitude to the Marcel Meux Foundation for having very graciously and generously co-hosted this symposium of the MAP Network. By extending its conference and lodging facilities at Les Pensis, Veyrier du Lac, France, the Marcel Meux Foundation made it possible for MAP members to meet in a wonderful working environment. MAP is grateful to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) for providing the financial resources to sponsor the attendance of some of the participants and covering some of the overall local cost.

MAP wishes to express its warmest thanks to the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) for its contribution to the production and dissemination of this report. The AmFAR support will ensure that the most current analysis of the status and trends of the HIV/AIDS epidemics reaches those who were able to attend the XII World Conference on AIDS and, more importantly, those who were unable to do so.

MAP would also like to acknowledge the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization for their June 1998 report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic and on their production of the Epi Fact Sheets which were developed in close collaboration with colleagues from national AIDS programs from around the world. These documents served as useful resources in the preparation of this report.

This meeting included discussions on themes which were introduced through the presentation of working papers. The authors of these working papers and the editor of this report are gratefully acknowledged here:

Karl-Lorenz Dehne, HIV/STD Research and Project Support Health Systems Research,
Evaluation and Planning Unit, Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health,
University of Heidelberg
EDITOR

Rudick Adamian, Inter-Country Program Adviser for the Central Asian Republics,
UNAIDS (resource person)

Lidiia Andrushchak, UNICEF Consultant on Human Rights Projects,
Kiev, Ukraine (Obstacles and Opportunities in HIV Prevention in IDUs)

Leonid Barabanov, Chief STD Specialist, Ministry of Health,
Minsk, Belarus (Determinants of STD Epidemic)

Nikolai I. Briko, Head Chair of Epidemiology,
Moscow, Russia (Current Situation with Sexually Transmitted
Diseases in Russia and Development Trends)

Turar Chaklikov, General Director of the Republican AIDS Center,
Almaty, Kazakhstan (Determinants of HIV Infection in Injecting Drug Users)

Saulinus Chaplinskas, Director, UNAIDS Focal Point, National AIDS Program Coordinator,
Lithuania AIDS Center (HIV Testing Policy in Lithuania)

Vadim N. Delukin, Head, Epidemiological Sanitary Inspectorate, Ministry of Interior Affairs,
Russia (Epidemiological Situation with HIV Infection among
Prisoners at Penal Institutions in the Russian Federation)

Natalia Firsova, Head of Epidemiology, Care and Prevention Department,
AIDS Prevention Center, Belarus (Peculiarities of HIV Infection among Injecting Drug Users in the Republic of Belarus)

Alexander T. Goliusov, Senior Specialist, HIV Prevention Unit,
Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Determinants of HIV Spread among Injecting Drug Users in Russia)

Alexander Gunchenko, Deputy Head of the Medical Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, Ukraine (HIV Infection in Prisons)

Yuri Kobyshcha, Acting ICPA, UNAIDS, Ukraine
(HIV Testing Policy in Ukraine, Determinants of HIV Spread among Drug Users)

Alexander Kosukhin, Deputy Director of STD Research Institute,
Almaty, Kazakstan (Determinants of the STD Epidemic)

Veena Lakhumalani, Project Officer, British Deputy High Commission,
British Council Division, India
(Sex Workers in the Newly Independent States, Determinants of HIV in Vulnerable Populations)

Henning Mikkelsen, Inter-Country Technical Advisor, UNAIDS,
WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen (Report on European Seminar on HIV/AIDS,
Sexually Transmitted Tuberculosis and Prisons, Warsaw, 14-16 December 1997;
Determinants of the HIV Spread among Men Who Have Sex with
Men in the Newly Independent States)

Vadim V. Pokrovski, Chief, Laboratory of AIDS Epidemiology and Prevention,
Russian Federation Scientific and Methodological AIDS Center (HIV Testing Policy in Russia)

Tatiana Semikop, Head of Public Movement Vera, Nadezha,
Lyubov, Odessa, Ukraine (Lowering of HIV/STD Spread Rate among
Women in Sex Business Programme Implementation in Odessa)

Edward Tashtanbekov, NGO Oasis, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Organization of Prevention
Surveys among MSM in Countries with Low HIV Prevalence - Kyrgyzstan as an Example)

Maia Tsintsadze, Epidemiologist, Georgian AIDS and Clinical
Immunology Research Center, Georgia (HIV/AIDS and Migrants in Georgia)

Tatina Zoueva, NGO on MSM, Belarus
(Determinants of HIV in Vulnerable Populations: Spread among MSM in Belarus)

Thanks are also extended to Carmen Buencamino, Johanna Van Hise Heart,
Mary Pat Kieffer, Elena Markova, and Catlin Rockman for the active staff assistance they contributed to the preparation of the meeting and to the production of this report.