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HST Submission to the National Task Team Charged with Developing Treatment Options to Supplement Comprehensive Care or HIV/Aids in the Public Sector
HST
2003-09-26

HST provided input to the National Task Team on a selection of the Terms of Reference, based on its experience with research, implementation and information, communication & advocacy. Some of the issues covered included: * Creating a Programme Management Unit (PMU) to co-ordinate the implementation of the programme and recommendation for its functions, structure, staffing and costs * Developing a communications plan for health providers and the public, including what to expect from the proposed treatment, noting the urgency of key messages * Developing staffing norms and standards for the delivery of ART and assessing human resource needs, the revision of training curricula, lay counsellors, and public-private partnership issues * Developing a research agenda to support the programme - Research agenda to include not only clinical studies focusing on treatment outcomes, but also health systems research and community-based studies * Developing a detailed five-year programme budget and an estimated ten-year budget to implement the treatment programme - the importance of equity and financial considerations * HST notes that the development of an Operational Plan for ART to supplement comprehensive care for HIV/AIDS is a means to an end, and not an end in itself, and that the real challenge lies in the implementation of the plan itself * To this end, the HST commits itself to continue working in partnership with the Department of Health at National, Provincial and District levels, as well as with all other key stakeholders The presentation may be downloaded from the HST web site ftp://ftp.hst.org.za/pubs/hst/art_sub190903.zip

HST provided input to the National Task Team on a selection of the Terms of Reference, based on its experience with research, implementation and information, communication & advocacy. Some of the issues covered included:

• Creating a Programme Management Unit (PMU) to co-ordinate the implementation of the programme and recommendation for its functions, structure, staffing and costs
• Developing a communications plan for health providers and the public, including what to expect from the proposed treatment, noting the urgency of key messages
• Developing staffing norms and standards for the delivery of ART and assessing human resource needs, the revision of training curricula, lay counsellors, and public-private partnership issues
• Developing a research agenda to support the programme - Research agenda to include not only clinical studies focusing on treatment outcomes, but also health systems research and community-based studies 
• Developing a detailed five-year programme budget and an estimated ten-year budget to implement the treatment programme - the importance of equity and financial considerations
• HST notes that the development of an Operational Plan for ART to supplement comprehensive care for HIV/AIDS is a means to an end, and not an end in itself, and that the real challenge lies in the implementation of the plan itself
• To this end, the HST commits itself to continue working in partnership with the Department of Health at National, Provincial and District levels, as well as with all other key stakeholders

The presentation may be downloaded from the HST web site ftp://ftp.hst.org.za/pubs/hst/art_sub190903.zip

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