From the Positive Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Network Sessions:

That a day of future PanPacific HIV+ Peoples Gatherings be devoted to Indigenous issues including:

• Multiplicity of Language
• Isolation of Communities
• Prison Populations
• Cultural Integration of the HIV message within each Indigenous Community e.g. HIV Dreaming and Songlines
• Sexual issues within cultures - rape, sexual abuse, child molestation

From the Human Rights Session:

A Regional PanPacific Strategy be developed to ensure Pacific Islanders have access to second line drugs no matter where they are or who they are.

Issues related to introducing Western notions of Human Rights to Indigenous Cultures:

• How de we communicate the potential of Human Rights into cultures which might initially find these ideas in conflict with their own or even culturally offensive.
• How do we enable local conversation within indigenous communities to discuss issues related to Human Rights
• How do we work together to promote inclusion and reject exclusion.
• How do we reassert cultural values that support the principles of Human Rights

Work to clarify the Human Rights of prisoners;

• Do they have a right to health?
• Do they have a right to protection from ill health
• What are the rights of people who are charged or just held in custody?

From the Wednesday Closed Mens Session:

The Gathering observes that while homosexualtiy remains criminalised, HIV in the community remains invisible.

The Gathering observes that the first step to combat AIDS is to decriminalise homosexuality.

The Gathering urges all countries in the Pacific Region to decriminalise homosexuality so that the fight against AIDS in their communities can begin.

From the Wednesday Survey of Countries

The Gathering find ways to give voice to marginalised human experience.

From Thursday Plenary Session

The Gathering advocates for universal access by 2010 throughout the pacific.

Universal access consists of:

• education, counselling, testing, monitoring, treatment, support.
• these services should be provided in a manner which is culturally appropriate
• These services should be provided by people with the qualifications relevant to the culture.

From Thursday Panel Discussion

The Gathering provide a network to facilitate the building of Consensus in the Pacific Region on how the problems of PLWHA be addressed.

The Gathering observes that Youth suffer an additional degree of marginalisation and that ways should be found to make Youth with HIV more visible in the planning of HIV strategies and programmes.

The Gathering questions whether PLWHA are properly served by having intervening layers of government and NGO's and seek a more direct and democratic model.

Thursday Mens Closed Session

Nobody should be subject to any kind of criminal liability due to their HIV+ status.

The above statement applies to:

• Discriminative application of Crimes Acts
• Discriniative application of Border Controls
• Other areas where pre-existing Laws are given new meanings by Judicial Review or other methods that to do not involve consultation, referendum or democratic process.

Thursday Womens Closed Session

The Gathering observes that Women suffer an additional degree of marginalisation and that ways should be found to make Women with HIV more visible in the planning of HIV strategies and programmes.

Thursday Afternoon Forum

The Gathering advocate for freedom of movement for PLWHA

The Gathering advocate to reduce inequalities in the Pacific Region with regard to:

• counselling, testing, treatments, support, welfare
• within cultures, populations and their subcultures (e.g. immigrant communities)

The Gathering observes that, like homosexuality, the criminalisation of prostitution drives HIV underground, makes it invisible, and puts women at risk of contracting HIV.

The Gathering urges all countries in the Pacific Region to decriminalise prostitution.

The Gathering observes that universal access is far from a reality and that we must work to make GIPA a reality.

The Gathering is concerned with the issue of the usefulness of confidentiality in different communities. In some communities disclosure may be helpful but in many it is not.

The Gathering asserts the principle of informed consent and VCCT.

The Gathering advocates for government support for PLWHA volunteers and their organisations.

The Gathering advocates that HIV testing be made more immediately accessible within the community context, where counselling, treatment, support and welfare services are also available.

The Gathering look at ways of addressing lack of personal income amongst PLWHA.

The Gathering observes that multiple Government agencies and NGO's competing for resources only serve to marginalise PLWHA further.