Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 18 2008:
An emergency meeting of the All Manipur NGO Partners Consortium on HIV/AIDS was held at the conference hall of Manipur Voluntary Health Association to discuss the hardship faced by the High Risk Population and People Living With HIV/AIDS due to non-release of fund by Manipur State AIDS Control Society (MACS) for the last 7 months.
The meeting unanimously decided to take up non-co-operation movement if the authorities concerned do not release the fund for a period of 8 months on or before November 20 .
The NGO consortium would be compelled to initiate line of actions like non-submission of monthly report, non-attendence in any meeting and training organised by MACS and non-cooperation in observing the World AIDS Day, 2008 organised by MACS, president and secretary of All Manipur NGO Partners' Consortium on HIV/AIDS informed in a joint statement.