The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7277 p735
29 November 2003

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CPA to promote pharmacists' role in HIV and AIDS

The Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association is to mark World Aids Day next week by publishing a statement encouraging greater use of pharmacists' knowledge and skills in the international fight against HIV/AIDS.

The statement is expected to identify ways in which pharmacists can be proactively involved, at both a national and community level, in the fight against HIV/AIDS. It is also expected to:

• Commit the CPA to collaboration with other international bodies in promoting pharmacists’ role in preventing AIDS and assisting people who have AIDS
• Ask CPA member associations to take similar steps at the national level
• Encourage pharmacists individually to take a more active role in fighting the disease

Based on the outcome of a symposium and workshops during the recent CPA conference (PJ, 30 August, p272), the statement is to be known as the Ocho Rios statement, after the Jamaican resort in which the CPA conference was held.

The statement is to be officially launched on 2 December, during the lead-up to the 2003 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which will take place in Aduja, Nigeria.

The statement will be launched by the Commonwealth’s deputy secretary general, Winston Cox, supported by the president of the CPA, Grace Allen Young, and the president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Bob Uwaga.