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OAFLA General Assembly selects Addis Ababa as the Permanent Secretariat seat of the Organisation |
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The General Assembly meeting of the Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS that took place on Monday, 1st February 2010, has decided that the seat of the permanent secretariat is to be in Addis Ababa according to OAFLA President First Lady of Ethiopia W/o Azeb Mesfin.
The Assembly reached decisions on issues like the need for a permanent secretariat and its location, as well as some legal amendments to the Rules of Procedure and the OAFLA Constitution both of which will enable the Organization to function better. During the Assembly the President of OAFLA also announced that the organization has launched campaigns such as the PMTCT (Preventing Mother to Child Transmission) and the care and support program for orphans to ensure that the next generation of children won’t have the virus. She further stated that OAFLA has taken the leadership role in creating a sense of responsibility and ownership in caring for orphans and vulnerable children.
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U.S. Under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs Ambassador Maria Otero Speech |
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Thank you to the Organization of African First Ladies for inviting me to be here with you today.
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President of OAFLA & First Lady of Ethiopia H.E W/o Azeb Mesfin Speech |
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Your excellencies First Ladies
Ambassador Maria Otero
Dr Meskerem Grunitzsky-Bekele Regional Director UNAIDS
Dr Roger Salla Ntounga Chief Office of Organizational Performance and Ethics UNAIDS
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
It is with great pleasure we welcome you to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to participate in this General Assembly. I want to take this opportunity to extend our condolences to the families of those who died as a result of the Ethiopian Airlines flight from Lebanon to Addis Ababa. |
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Honorable W/o Netsanet Asfaw (Government Assistant Whip with the rank of State Minister of the House of People’s representatives and Board Member of the National Coalition for Women against HIV/AIDS) -Ethiopian Delegate |
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Your Excellencies It’s my pleasure and honour to be invited to say a few words here today. I would like to take you on our journey here in Ethiopia, for the emancipation of women, bringing peace to the family and the community, what Ethiopia is trying to do. Ethiopia has 80 languages, cultures, and ways of life. We have one of the oldest histories in the world. We have an African alphabet and the first written music in the world; we have a unique political system you don’t find anywhere else. |
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General Assembly of OAFLA 2010 |
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The General Assembly of OAFLA including the meetings of the Steering Committee and the Technical Advisors, will be held between the 30th January 2010 and 1st February 2010 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by the current President of OAFLA, the first lady of Ethiopia Her Excellency W/o Azeb Mesfin. The major focus of this General Assembly will be to launch the strategic plan that was adopted at the sub-regional and country level including the PMTCT initiative. Zambia has already initiated this process through the Maternity Protection Act as a strategy to promote PMTCT with the SADCC countries. The secretariat has participated in this initiative actively and hopes that Zambia can share its experiences with all OAFLA members. During this meeting OAFLA members will also focus on a realistic goal of developing a plan of action in order to launch initiatives that are included in the strategic plan, assess the feasibility and discuss the mobilization of resources for this plan. |
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In accordance to the consensus that was reached by the Steering Committee on 2nd February, 2009, the Seventh Ordinary OAFLA General Assembly will be preceded by a Special Technical Advisors’ Meeting, which will involve the finalization of the OAFLA Strategic Plan -adopted during the Extraordinary General Assembly in February, 2009 - and the development of a Common Plan of Action.
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The Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) will, from 1st to 3rd July, 2009, hold its Seventh Ordinary General Assembly in Sirte, Libya alongside the 13th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union. |
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OAFLA Extraordinary General Assembly |
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Following the official OAFLA Executive Secretariat handover from Zambia to Ethiopia in October 2008, the current Secretariat organized an Extraordinary General Assembly, which took place from February 1 to 3, 2009 to deliberate on the following agenda |
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