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Providing technical
assistance to the National AIDS Programme (NAP) in its efforts to prevent HIV
infection and provide comprehensive care and support to people living with
HIV-AIDS (PLHA) including:
 Supporting the development of HIV-AIDS related policies;
Supporting the development of human resources capacity building
through local and international training of health and other staff on
sexually transmitted infections (STI) management, HIV clinical management,
targeted condom promotion program, HIV testing and counselling, laboratory
support to blood safety and quality control for HIV testing;
Supporting the NAP efforts for scaling up care and support to PLHA
through the implementation of a comprehensive package of care and support
including voluntary confidential counselling and testing (VCCT),
anti-retroviral therapy (ART) implementation, opportunistic infection control
and prevention and community and home base care for PLHA;
Implementing TB-HIV joint programme efforts.
Technical support provided to the substance abuse control project of
the Department of Health for the piloting and expansion of methadone
substitution programme for injecting drug users.
Advocacy, raising commitment for HIV-AIDS prevention and control and
resource mobilization including TB-HIV joint efforts.
Organizing and assisting external reviews of the various HIV-AIDS
related projects.
Strengthening and facilitating partnership with other national and
international stakeholders for HIV-AIDS prevention and control.
Providing logistic support including the procurement of laboratory
equipment, drugs and other commodities.
Providing technical assistance in monitoring and evaluation and
quality assurance including tools and implementation of external quality
assessment for HIV serology (EQAS) in public health laboratories.
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Publication
Behavioural
Surveillance Survey 2008
Injecting
Drug Users and Female Sex Workers
To monitor the trajectory of the
HIV epidemic among higher risk groups the National AIDS Programme (NAP) has a
two prong surveillance system which consists of HIV sentinel serosurveillance
and behavioural surveillance surveys (BSS). Both are critical components for
assessing and evaluating the overall impact of the national response to HIV and
AIDS. The previous round of BSS, in 2003, were conducted among the general
population. Between late 2007 and the first quarter 2008, BSS was conducted
in female sex workers (FSW) and injection drug users (IDU), for first time by
the NAP.
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 Home-based
care can be defined as any form of assistance provided to a sick person
referred to as the patient directly in the home by family, friends and
members of the local community, cooperating with the advice and support from
the trained health workers. It is not only intended to give care to bedridden
condition, but also intended for the psychosocial support, reducing stigma and
discrimination, adherence monitoring in order to have the comprehensive
continuum care of People living with HIV (PLHIV) patients …
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With
technical input from WHO and financial support from the 3 Diseases Fund, the
National AIDS Programme (NAP) of the Department of Health has substantially
improved the HIV surveillance system in recent years. These improvements
include the revision of HIV Sero-sentinel surveillance (HSS) protocols as
well as the introduction of behavioral surveillance among populations at
higher risk of HIV…