| Summary |
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.
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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
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