Membership Drive of APCOM

The Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM) is a multi sectoral international coalition representing the government sector, the donors, the UN, technical experts, and community organizations and networks working for and on the issues of MSM/Transgender and HIV. The coalition was officially launched in July 2007 at the 8^th ICAAP in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

APCOM advocates and promotes:

1] Increased investments on MSM/Transgender HIV programming in the Asia Pacific region.

2] Scaled up HIV and sexual health services for MSM/Transgender in the Asia Pacific region.

3] Improved knowledge to better inform programming and service delivery on MSM/Transgender issues in the region

4] Address stigma, discrimination, and social justice concerns of MSM and transgender is the Asia Pacific region.

5] Promote good practices in MSM/Transgender HIV programming as defined in the ‘Risks and Responsibilities Consultation 2006” held in New Delhi, India.

The coalition has divided the Asia Pacific region into seven sub-regions (China, Developed Asia, India, Greater Mekong sub-region, Pacific, South Asia excluding Inida, South East Asia excluding GMS)

Representatives of these sub regions are elected to be on the board of APCOM by member organizations in the particular sub-region.

For more information about APCOM, its structure, activities and achievements please visit the APCOM website at www.msmasia.org

We urge all organizations and networks working on MSM/Transgender HIV issues in the countries of Asia and the Pacific to become members of APCOM, so that they can participate in the upcoming elections of APCOM board, so that their voice can be heard through their sub regional representatives.

Registration can be done online and this is the preferred method. Please visit the following URL to do this:

http://www.msmasia.org/onlineapply.html

In case you are unable to access the registration online please write to either me (adityab@...) for sending you a hard copy of the manual form, which you can then fill up and return to me for processing your registration.

We encourage all appropriate organizations to come together to fight for the health and human rights of MSM and transgender persons, and help us do the same by becoming our member and strengthening our hands.