Dear Everyone:

In the capacity of Chief Executive, I must now say a big thank you to all of you as our sponsors, hosts, guest speakers, and participants.

This year, the Forum was hosted by the Hong Kong AIDS Foundation along with substantial support from our counterparts from the Mainland, Macau and Taiwan.  This year’s Forum has finally come to an end and it was a great success.  We have spent nine months planning this event from conceiving the theme, organising the logistics, finding sponsors, organising the Scientific Committee, sending invitations, to putting all actions into a real EVENT.

It was definitely a mammoth task, especially when dealing with so many parties and so many ideas from everyone that we had to listen to, digest and find compromises.    Fortunately, we had YOU as our partners in the capacity of sponsors, hosts, speakers, S.O.C members, organising members, and co-organizers, so that only the most constructive advice, insights and useful comments were received to ensure a smoothly running Forum. Without all YOU, the Forum would not have been the success it indeed was.

This Forum itself was also a milestone event as it was the very first HIV-related conference co-organized by Four regions (Beijing, Hong Kong, Macau & Taiwan), involving more than 100 – 150 guests after the conclusion of the COVID pandemic.  Finally, almost all participants from the various locations were able to attend the two-day Forum physically, not virtually.

And the topic chosen that has touched people’s hearts was also the very first challenging issue for all of us at the Hong Kong AIDS Foundation.  As an NGO serving not only populations at-risk, we knew the quality of life of people living with HIV should also be equally significant.  Therefore, with the tradition of the Forum being held in a two-day format (since 2020, the 1st AIDS Forum), we put the focus of the latest HIV vaccines and HIV treatment on Day 1 among other topics; whilst on Day 2, the focuses were on both the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as the exploration of an effective cooperation between frontline workers in the Mainland and other Asian regions (not only Hong Kong) in a bid to echo UNAIDS’ current target that the enhanced level of quality of life of people living with HIV and people at risk through the support of more tailor-made psychological approaches should be achieved by 2030.

In our vision for this Forum, we targeted to invite experts to participate into the Forum from the National STD AIDS Center, NGO representatives as well as leading minds in AIDS prevention and control, not only from the Mainland but across other Asian regions, and we finally did that.  Another achievement was that we received overwhelming responses with no fewer than 150 attendees on both days.  It was a fantastic result.   And I know the fantastic attendance rate was due in no small part to these reasons:

  1. The top-notch quality of our speakers, including the depth and width of their presentations;
  2. The trust from all participants in the Hong Kong AIDS Foundation

The main purpose of the Forum was to enhance deeper cooperation between non-governmental organizations located in Hong Kong, the Mainland, Macau and Taiwan.  And, we achieved that.   With this in mind, besides expressing our most sincere gratitude to The Honorable John LEE Ka-Chiu, GBM, SBS, PDSM, PMSM, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong, for the Opening Remarks (Video), we are now able to sit down and spend time to express our most genuine appreciation for the following ladies and gentlemen: They are our officiating guests, they are our sponsors, they are our guest speakers, they are our hosts, and they are also our special supporters by means of providing us with the most solid support to make this Forum happen:

  • LEE Ha-Yun, Libby, JP
  • Erasmus U. MORAH
  • Professor David Da-I HO
  • Professor CHEN Zhiwei
  • HAO Yang
  • SHANG Hong
  • JIN Ronghua
  • WANG Xinlun
  • SHEN Jie
  • LEONG Iek Hou
  • Chien-Chin HUNG
  • Patrick LI
  • Owen TSANG
  • Man Po LEE
  • Wilson LAM
  • ZHANG Fu Jie
  • HAN Mengjie
  • ZHAO Hongxin
  • Sun Sun LAU
  • Lisa YIP
  • CHAN Shan
  • Barry K H TAM
  • Jacky CHAN
  • Paul HSU
  • Nai-Ying KO
  • HAN Jing
  • LEONG Mei Pou
  • Midnight POONKASETWATTANA
  • Phoenix Kit-Han MO
  • Chien-Yu CHENG
  • Kelvin Wai Ip U
  • LI Zhennan
  • Ben CHEN
  • Colby LI
  • 李慧女士
  • 徐慧芳女士
  • 段君义先生
  • 楊杰先生
  • 吳冬玲女士
  • 賀喜先生
  • Barry & Martin’s Trust
  • Gilead Sciences Hong Kong Limited
  • GlaxoSmithKline plc
  • Hactl (Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited)
  • Prince Jewellery & Watch Limited
  • Sa Sa Cosmetic Company Limited

 

Thank you for all your help.  Thank you for your willingness to act as our partners.  And in two years, I hope to see you again in Macau, the next hosting region, at the 8th AIDS Forum.

 

Ms. Sun Sun LAU

Chief Executive

Hong Kong AIDS Foundation

Together, we create a stigma-free world.