Malaysian AIDS Council

Malaysian AIDS Council
Founded 1992
Type NGO
Location
Area served
Malaysia
Key people
 Bakhtiar Talhah (President)
Prof Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman (Vice President)
Hisham Hussein (Honorary Secretary)
Woo Kin Fai (Honorary Treasurer)[1]
Website www.mac.org.my

Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC, Malay: Majlis AIDS Malaysia) was established in 1992 under the Ministry of Health with a mission to represent, mobilise and strengthen non-governmental organisations and communities who were working with HIV/AIDS issues. The Malaysian AIDS Council began with an umbrella of 18 NGOs who were directly working on the various aspects of HIV/AIDS issues.

Objectives

MAC complements and supports the government's efforts to maximise the community's response to HIV/AIDS and to maximise the usage of limited resources available. The primary objectives of MAC are to:[2]

Scope of work

MAC works with its partner organisations in a diverse range of activities from advocating and policy reforms; developing awareness and communication materials; creating public awareness campaigns; conducting and organising workshops and seminars; rolling out prevention and education programmes; providing care and support services and psychological counselling.

Special projects

MAC also works on special projects, including Needle and Syringe Programme (NSEP) which strives to reduce the unsafe practice of sharing needles and syringes by infected injecting drug users (IDU).[3]

Malaysian AIDS Foundation

The Malaysian AIDS Foundation (MAF) raises money and manages funds to support the activities of the Malaysian AIDS Council and its Partner Organisations. Celebrities have lent their time and faces to generate monies for MAC, and large corporations, both international and local, from Standard Chartered Trust Fund , Mercedes-Benz Malaysia , Hong Leong Bank Bhd , L'Oreal Malaysia , Shell , Levi Strauss Foundation .[4]

Organisations partner

MAC is led by an Executive Committee (EXCO) comprising ten elected representatives from the Partner Organisations which comprises a diverse range of associations, from the medical industry, religious based communities to the nation's legal institutes. The Partner Organisations that make up MAC are:[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "New AIDS council chief to push boundaries". Malay Mail. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  2. ↑ http://www.mac.org.my/mac.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.mac.org.my/nsep.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.mac.org.my/maf.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.mac.org.my/partner.htm
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