Workshop 1.6 - Deutscher Verein für öffentliche und private Fürsorge

Now, the number of the members affected by HIV/AIDS who are part of the organizations represented by UNOPA is 1049 and over
900 of them are children.
The main activities developed by UNOPA during the last two years have been:
• representing the member organizations in relation with local and central authorities
• advocacy and lobby interventions for the promotion and the protection of the rights of the persons in Romania who are infected and
affected by HIV/AIDS (to decrease the price of the medicine drugs specific for the antiretroviral treatment, to ensure specialized
treatment and health care for all the persons in Romania affected by AIDS, to create a monitoring system of the antiretroviral treatment,
to initiate social protection measures and to develop social services etc.);
• active participation in the meetings of the multisectorial HIV/AIDS National Commission;
• several actions in order to promote and sustain the rights of the persons infected and affected by HIV/AIDS: public awareness
campaigns;
• juridical assistance for the persons with HIV/AIDS;
• financial and technical support for the organizations, members of the Federation, in order to develop community services;
• elaborating proposals for the improvement of specific legislation;
• partnerships with national and international institutions/organizations, having in view the necessary help for initiating and
implementing more effective programs;
• organization of seminars and meetings, with national and international participation.
This association has its own Charter of fundamental principles, with the following motto:
What we do without the others, without their participation, means "acting against them”. This includes:
• respecting HIV/AIDS infected and affected person’s right to life;
• the principle of undiscriminiation;
• the recognition of the rights of the HIV/AIDS infected or affected persons and of their organizations;
• the priniciple of solidarity;
• the priniciple of responsibility of the HIV/AIDS infected and affected persons and their organizations.
In 2003, UNOPA will implement more projects, for example:
- “Advocacy for Human Rights in HIV/AIDS context”, in cooperation with UNICEF, main purposes will be: supplying objective,
reliable, comparable information concerning national and international human rights (including child’s rights), applicable standards
in HIV/AIDS context, good practice information, statistic data and examples in order to contribute to the development of the public
policies and practices in the HIV/AIDS sphere and
- directly support (food, vitamins) for all the persons affected by HIV/AIDS, project developed in co-operation with“Médecins sans
Frontières” (Belgium).
In the field of social protection of HIV/AIDS infected or affected persons, the Romanian government decided to create the National
Commission to survey, control and prevent cases with HIV/AIDS, formed by representatives from all ministries with concrete responsibilities
and from the most important non-governmental organizations active at national level. The vice president of this commission
is member of UNOPA.
The above mentioned examples are intending to present different aspects of the involvement and participation of the vulnerable groups
of the population, concerning laws, policies and attitudes specific to the socio-economic realities from Romania today. Knowing that
the concept of inclusion and participation is often associated with factors such as living conditions, housing standards, nutrition, health
and social care, we have to realize, that the approach of the situation was influenced by the specific economical and cultural Romanian
context.
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