Past activities
Othoman Mellouk started his position as the Regional Coordinator for MENA region as of June 2010. Since then, the priority area of focus has been the revision of the Global Fund eligibility criteria that excludes countries of MENA (especially North Africa). He and ITPCru were able to mobilize a broad range of alliances in the region and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As part of the “I want to be eligible” campaign, Association de lutte contre le SIDA (ALCS), the host organisation, produced specific materials for the campaign and organised a protest at the IAC. In the GFATM session, Othoman raised critical questions regarding the criteria to Executive Director Michel Kazachkine. The campaign received huge media coverage.
Current and future activities
Main activities of the Regional Coordinator will be establishing an ITPC Regional Secretariat in sub-region North Africa (August), developing communication infrastructure such as websites, regional e-list HIV-North Africa (September-December) and workplans for 2011. From September the Secretariat will coordinate a study on access to treatment in six countries (Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt) using the Missing the Target model of TMAP. It will also try to raise funds to constitute Regional Advisory Committee for the MENA region (expected to be completed by July 2011) and run treatment literacy/advocacy programmes.
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