[ingodirectors] ANNOUNCEMENT: New HPC Representative Elected

[Marko Lovrekovic]

Dear Colleagues,

Following your nominations and the electronic vote, it is my great 
pleasure to announce that Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong Nhung from Voluntary 
Service Overseas (VSO), has been elected, by a majority of your of 
votes, to become the new INGO Representative at the HIV Policy and 
Programme Coordination Group (HPC). Please join me in congratulating 
Nhung on her new role!

As a reminder for those of you who do not know Nhung very well, below is 
her short professional biography.

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Nguyen Thi Hong Nhung has been identified as the first national Country 
Director of the Voluntary Service Overseas in Vietnam. She will take up 
this position in January 2011, after intensive preparations in Vietnam, 
the UK and other VSO country programmes. Nhung has had 10 years 
experience, in Vietnam, working on different areas relating to HIV/AIDS 
prevention and mitigation; and sexual and reproductive health for 
adolescents and youth. Initially working in this area with Care 
International, she moved to VSO in 2005 and has been the HIV/AIDS 
programme manager since. In her professional working experience, Nhung 
has always played a crucial role in working with partners and 
stakeholders at different levels, from direct interventions and hands-on 
capacity building activities with target groups of the most vulnerable 
populations, such as people living with HIV, sex workers, injecting drug 
users, women and children who are affected by HIV, and youth practising 
high risk behaviours. Nhung also undertook the role of coordinator and 
capacity builder for different civil society organisations and CBOs 
working on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, focusing on 
coordination, networking, programme development and management and 
advocacy. One of her main roles in VSO is partnership development, 
networking and linkage with many different stakeholders at different 
levels, including government agencies, mass organisations, UN agencies 
and INGOs (UNAIDS, UNODC, VAAC, DoH, PACs) and local authorities, 
Women's Union, Youth Union and different networks of CSOs and vulnerable 
groups (VCSPA, VNP+, LNGOs) and self help groups of PLHIV. Over time, 
Nhung has always showed her strong passion, commitment and dedication to 
the effort of fighting against HIV/AIDS especially stigma and 
discrimination against PLHIV, promoting and advocating for the rights of 
PLHIV and addressing exclusion with the aim of improving the quality of 
life for people who are infected and affected by HIV.

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Warm regards,

Marko

-- 
Marko Lovrekovic, Managing Co-Director
VUFO-NGO Resource Centre
La Thanh Hotel, 218  Doi Can
Hanoi, Vietnam
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