Held in Tunis by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) from Dec. 9th to Dec. 13th 2002, with the support of UNAIDS and UNFPA and the logistical help of the Tunisian Association against STIs/AIDS (ATL-MST/SIDA, Association Tunisienne de Lutte contre les MST et le SIDA), the Regional workshop on Networking, Partnership and Leadership for Civil Society Organisations onHIV/AIDS in the Arab States, gathers around 50 Arab civil society organisations representatives coming from 14 countries including Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria,