Mr Rajkumar Nalinikanta

About Rajkumar

Mr. Rajkumar Nalinikanta is a permanent resident of Manipur, North East India. He is a former injecting Drug User living with HIV for the last 15 years. He started working in the field of HIV and drug use related issue to promote and protect health & human rights of people who use drugs (PUD) since 2003.

Presently he is working as a President at CoNE which is a state level network of 13 community based organizations contributing to state health response related with drug use including HIV and viral hepatitis B & C. As an organization head he is leading the team in all the advocacy related activities taken up by the organization and also looking after the organizational development department of the organization.

This speaker will be presenting at the following session(s)

  • Advocacy for access to hepatitis treatment

    Golden Hall

    Day: 2 November

    Time: 12:00

    Chairs: Jennifer Johnston, CEVHAP and Dr. Bobby John, Global Health Advocates, India

    Presentations:

    • Introduction and vision.
      Othoman Mellouk, International Treatment Preparedness Coalition
    • Advocacy for access for the most vulnerable populations.
      • Luís Mendão, GAT - Treatment Activist Group
    • Brazilian experience on patent opposition.
      • Felipe de Carvalho, Working Group on Intellectual Property of the Brazilian Network for the Integration of Peoples (GTPI/Rebrip)
    • DNDi strategy on access to hepatitis C medicines.
      Francisco Viegas, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative
    • Role of the civil society: case study in a country with access to generics.
      • Rajkumar Nalinikanta, CoNE Manipur
    • Q & A session.