BREAK-THE-SILENCE

Break-the-Silence is a dedicated NGO and civil society e-mail discussion forum established specifically to support transparent and open NGO participation in the Special Session on HIV/AIDS. Issues raised through contributions to this forum will be consolidated and made available to accredited NGOs, government delegations, UN organizations and the media.

To join the forum, send an e-mail message to: join-break-the-silence@hdnet.org.

To read previous postings sent to the forum, background information and other relevant information and documents, go to the Health and Development Networks website at <http://www.hdnet.org>.

If you are an NGO receiving information from the Break-the-Silence forum, you may want to display (and translate) some of the postings in your centre or offices, or distribute them to your clients and NGO partners. If local issues and priorities are raised and discussed in local languages, you could provide short summaries and send them to the e-forum to make sure these perspectives are heard.

Break-the-Silence is provided free of charge to all users.

For further information about the Break-the-Silence forum, send an email to: ungass@hdnet.org