March 22 2006: Japanese Government Released Its Country Report for UNGASS+5

In February, Government of Japan submitted the country report for the UN General Assembly for reviewing Declaration on Committment on HIV/AIDS (DoC), which will take place in the end of May and early June. It was released to Japanese civil society groups in late March.

The official deadline set by UNAIDS to submit the report was the end of December 2005. UNAIDS also urged all the governments to have consultation with civil society and private sectors in the drafting process of the reports. But Japanese government didn't have any consultation in its process for drafting the report.

The document was written by mainly Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) and has only 4 pages. It lacks many points necessary to review the achievements of targets of DoC.

You can get Japanese Governmental Country Report from Here

Masaki Inaba
Program Coordinator on HIV/AIDS, Africa Japan Forum
E-mail: info@ajf.gr.jp