Surveillance Coordinator
			Ministry of Health, National STD/Aids/Viral Hepatitis Department
			
			CAF, Edificio Premium
			
			Brasilia
			
			Brazil
			
			gerson.pereira@aids.gov.br
			
			
Biographical Sketch:
Currently general Coordinator of the Sexually transmitted diseases HIV and viral hepatitis Surveillance Unit in the National STD/Aids and Viral hepatitis Department of the Ministry of Health of Brazil, since 2004. Previously, National Coordinator of the leprosy Control Program at the Ministry of Health of Brazil. Working in the National HIV Program of Ministry of Health of Brazil since its foundation in 1984.