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Allison Green - Director, National Aids Commission
"What we we're doing is we're socializing the results and the findings of various studies that have been conducted over the last year or so. As we're moving towards a more evidence-based approach to all the work that we're doing in the National Response to HIV and AIDS in the countries, we're looking a trying to make sure that we're making use of the resources in as effective and with the most impact as was we possibly can. And so, all the research and the findings that will be reported today is going to shed some light on how we can best use those resources but also change the strategies and the approaches that we've been using from before. One the things that we're being made aware of today is that what we've been doing so far has been successful, but we're hoping that because of all the changes in what we're seeing all over the world, where it comes to the patterns the trends in the epidemic, there is a need for something to be done differently. And so, that is what we're looking at today, how to make sure that all the strategies and approaches are leading toward something that is more innovative, something that is going to really have the effect that we want to have for today and for the future. What we've been doing in the past is no longer going to reach what we're trying to reach now. Some of the participants who have here are the national partners in the response, including the UN agencies. We have various civil society organizations; we have the Belize Red Cross, Hand In Hand Ministries, CNET PLUS, working with persons vulnerable to HIV and AIDS. We have UNIBAM, various government departments, the Ministry of Health, the National Drug Abuse Control Council, and we have advocates. We have a retired teacher of 37 years, and so we just have persons who are interested and persons who are working on the ground in the HIV and AIDS response in the country."

The Conference was a one day event which ended at 5 this evening.