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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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HIV surveillance is the systematic and regular collection
of information on the occurrence, distribution and trends in HIV infection
and factors associated with infection for use for public health action.
Surveillance is conducted among populations who are at the highest risk of
acquiring HIV and thus, are most critical for interventions. Since 1992, the National
AIDS Programme has been carrying out annual HIV
sentinel sero-surveillance survey.
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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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The objectives of this training are: 
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technical input from 