The Pacific Regional Strategy on HIV/AIDS (2004-2008): Pacific Regional Strategy Implementation Plan

The Pacific Regional Strategy on HIV/AIDS (2004-2008) is designed to support national efforts to prevent and control HIV/AIDS and to strengthen work at the regional level through improved coordination, collaboration and partnership between regional organizations and national programmes.

The goal of the strategy is a broad regional goal to which all HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities in the region contribute. It was endorsed by regional leaders at the 35th Pacific Islands Forum meeting held in Apia, Samoa, on 8 August 2004. In endorsing the five-year regional strategy, the Pacific leaders recognized the urgent need to effectively address HIV/AIDS in the region, and therefore tasked the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) with developing a detailed implementation plan for the Strategy.