Takoradi, Oct. 9 GNA - A Ghanaian International Anti-HIV/AIDS Activist, Mr Joe Adusei has been made a member of the Community Liaison Sub-Committee of the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infection (CROI), an International HIV/AIDS Planning Committee based in the United States.

He is the first Ghanaian to be selected outside the United States to serve on the Conference's Sub-Committee.

This is contained in a letter from the Conference's Secretariat in Alexandria, United State of America, a copy of which has been released to the press at Takoradi.

Mr Adusei, who has been an Anti HIV/AIDS Activist for more than a decade, is also the Director of Centre for AIDS Information Network, (CAIN), a Takoradi based non-governmental organisation (NGO). He once made a presentation at the 12th AIDS World Conference in Geneva in 1998. He is also a fellow of the African-American HIV University in Los Angeles.

Mr Adusei is currently in New York participating in the AIDS Vaccine 2003 conference and other assignments.

According to the letter on his return from the US next month, Mr Adusei would deliberate with the Ministry of Health and the Ghana AIDS Commission on intended HIV Treatment Advocacy Campaign Project in Ghana. The CROI, which has been in existence for over 10 years, was created to provide a forum for basic and clinical investigators to present diseases and critique their investigations into the epidemiology and biology of human retroviruses and the diseases they produce.

It is sponsored by the Foundation with the US-based National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) the letter said. 09 Oct. 03