 Here today, and we are joined by Argentina Sabados, Director of IOM's Regional Office for South Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. I might add that her office is also a liaison office to the United Nations Agencies and other international organizations based in Vienna. Tina, welcome and thank you for joining us today. You were here to make an important intervention at the United Nations National Assembly session, the 73rd session on the UN common paper to combat HIV, TB and viral hepatitis. Can you tell us a little bit what did you say to your distinguished audience and your co-pilots at that event? Many thanks for this and many thanks Rama for interviewing me today. It is a great honor and a privilege for IOM to organize a side event together with WHO and the Slovak Republic. It is unique as such after two years of being in the UN to have such a prominent side event organized together. The event itself has been very well attended and very successful. I was speaking about the common position paper, which is a paper which has been born by the regional UNDGs that I am part of and also the paper has been signed by all the UN organizations including IOM. It is a paper that initiates and makes certain that intra-agency cooperation is strengthened and also cooperation with all the players are strengthened in order to minimize and eradicate TB, HIV as well as hepatitis. As such it has been an eye-opener for all of us. The member states who were around the table were sharing their experiences, were sharing their best practices and also were sharing their positive examples on how they do their best to fight these diseases. What I do here also is that they were giving their political support. They have a good political will as well as the implementation that they are going to be taking from now on guided through the paper and through the agencies they are. The paper includes migration and includes migrants and this is very important because it's not that we eradicate these diseases. You really need to put the most vulnerable on top. The most vulnerable are the poor, the marginalized and those include also the migrants and the migrants are specified there in the paper. So here is our role to be involved in this event. So looking at TB for a moment, what is IOM role? What source of program do we run on the ground in? In the TB we do run a complex program from identifying the disease, giving treatment to making referrals and that is very important that we have a continuous care so it's not only that we identify and that we leave the patient alone or the migrant alone but we are able to refer the migrant even if the migrant leaves to another country from a transit to a destination country throughout the road. We do have a complex network of TB diagnosis centers all around the world and it works superbly well and it's very very useful for both the migrants as well as the countries of destinations, those countries who would receive them. That's good. So it seems that HIV doesn't seem to be as big a danger as it was in the 90s. Is that the case? It is. Globally it is the case that HIV is reducing. However in our region, in Eastern Europe and in Central Asia, it's unfortunately increasing. It's the only region where it's increasing. It has been new HIV cases, 75% increase since 2006. So it's something that really in our region we have to be looking at in order to address it. That's very unfortunate. It's startling a depressing picture. Is there anything to be optimistic about? Well what I was saying during the side event is that diseases do not have passports, they do not need identity cards or work permits but they travel freely and they are where they want to. And unless we put borders to this disease not to spread further then we won't be successful. Migrants are not the only ones who are spreading the disease obviously. However they are part of the vulnerable groups who may have the disease and may be marginalized, may be also not seen in a good faith and as such they may not come public about their diseases. So there is a risk there for them in particular to be stigmatized. And unless we make every effort to make certain that this particular vulnerable group of people are taken care of and we focus on their needs and their needs primarily we will be losing there. There is no one size fit all. In all the countries the approach is different and also it's not only numbers, it's human beings. So all the human beings we have been reacting in a different way to the news whenever they get bad news about their... It's true. Thank you so much Tina for joining us from New York. Thank you so much. My privilege. Thank you.