AIDS Commission Outlines 10 Ways To Fight HIV/AIDS A three day workshop deliberating on new ways of approaching the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Sudan ended on Friday in Juba, highlighting on ten ways on how the new nation should deal with the pandemic. 02 October 2011 AIDS Commission Outlines 10 Ways To Fight HIV/AIDS Participants in a group photo after the workshop ended at the New South Sudan Hotel in Juba [©Gurtong]
By Waakhe Simon Wudu JUBA, 2nd September 2011 [Gurtong] – A three day workshop deliberating on new ways of approaching the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Sudan ended on Friday in Juba, highlighting on ten ways on how the new nation should deal with the pandemic. Organized by the South Sudan Aids Commission, (SSAC), the workshop drew over 200 participants from all the ten States who included; senior staffs of the commission, partners both national and foreign, other government officials, religious groups, community and political leaders. The participants outlined the following measures: “A stigma and discrimination (S&D) index survey will be commissioned to gather evidence for development of a S&D reduction strategy for South Sudan, The strategy for reduction of stigma and discrimination will be developed and disseminated, Each State to carryout resource mapping specifying; gaps, priority geographical areas and indicators to focus on, Each State will outline a STATE RESPONSE plan indicating interventions, targets, and responsible actors. A behaviour survey to be conducted to provide more comprehensive evidence for effective planning, The private sector coordination network/group will be established to outline the specific role of the private sector, A high level meeting will be organized at national level to engage the legislative council and the council of ministers to garner support for order for line ministries to effectively undertake mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS, A conference with participation of other countries will be organized at national level to engage high leadership, partners, and stakeholders to strategize implementation of interventions for: ZERO discrimination, ZERO new infections and ZERO HIV related deaths, M&E (monitoring and evaluation) guidelines and tools for the community response will be disseminated to all States and the following M&E activities will be undertaken; Prepare reports for the community response for the period January-December 2011; joint field visits initiated; quarterly reviews of the State response; and establishment of computerized data bases at Sudan Aids Commission’s offices (SAC), and A marketing strategy for resource mobilization by SSAC will be outlined with relevant tools. Posted in: Home Comments RSS comment feed There are currently no comments, be the first to post one. Add Comment Log in to post a comment. If you are not a Gurtong member yet, register here. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
