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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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