Editorial

When we wrote the editorial for the first edition we said that due to the actual dimensions of the pandemia and the velocity in which spreads itself it is important to realize that we have to ellaborate and execute joint strategies among civil society, government and the private industry, because we cannot take the liberty to duplicate efforts or to leave areas without attention. So, the model to follow is collaboration; being aware that if this collaboration doesn't work, is not because it's incorrect but because in some of the parties involved there are not the right people, with the perception and sensibility to achieve group work.

Making account for what happened between both publications, we believe that there are reasons to feel optimistic, relationships among AIDS Non-Governmental Organizations have improved substancially and a breaking point in these relationships happened with the celebration of the II National Encounter in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Now there is concern by the sibling organizations for the strenghtening work like the one leaded by Colectivo Sol, there is also the will to work together in benefit of people living with HIV/AIDS, in such case is the constitution of the AIDS Non-Governmental Organizations Network with care and assistance services; and the collaborative work of endless actors to present for the first time an inform of a International Conference on AIDS from the civil society, this time Geneva's and the joint effort from organizations to do the Communitary Forum within the International Congress of Acapulco 1999.

On the other hand, we can't deny that authorities are more sensible to our opinions, there's a bigger hearing and better ways of communication have been opened, even at hierarchy levels never touched in the past.

There is also a bigger interest from the pharmaceutic industry involved to know our organizations and, if possible, to participate in certain programs, and most of all to participate in the events of Non-Governmental Organization and of people living with HIV/AIDS.

In the near horizon, we believe it's in sight the creation of more networks and, of course, the celebration of the III National Encounter, to which we compromised to end the agenda we started in the past reunion. And all this is the result, seen as many as slow, of a national network that's being knitted with the effort and will of many AIDS Non-Governmental Organizations.