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Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -Global AIDS
Program, NASTAD's Global program increases the capacity of resource-constrained
countries to plan, implement and manage HIV prevention and care
activities as part of a unified U.S. government response to the
HIV/AIDS pandemic. Relying on the extensive experience of NASTAD
members in organizational assessment, training, policy and program
development, prevention, care, integration of STD and HIV, community
planning, voluntary counseling and testing, decentralization, scaling
up, capacity-building, fiscal management, stigma/ denial issues,
and evaluation, the Global program responds to identified needs
and priorities of country Ministries of Health, National AIDS Control
Programs, and CDC through peer-based technical assistance, delegation
visits, and workshops/trainings.
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Twinning
NASTAD promotes the bi-directional peer-exchange of program management
skills and experience between organizations in the U.S. and their
counterparts abroad. NASTAD itself is twinned with the emerging
Caribbean
Coalition of National AIDS Programme Coordinators and provides
technical assistance and support for organizational capacity building
(Caribbean).
In addition NASTAD is in an unique position to support twinning
activities between its membership (state health department AIDS
programs), and regional or provincial health department AIDS programs
in other countries. Our work in South Africa is a good example.
Community & Evidence Based Planning
Many countries seek to decentralize their AIDS program resources
to the state, regional or community level. Communities must then
be able to identify their most urgent AIDS program needs, and plan
a comprehensive response. NASTAD draws on its experience of U.S.
community planning activities to provide technical assistance
in the management of inclusive and representative planning bodies,
as well as around their use of objective evidence, needs assessment
and gap analysis to perform prioritization, and resource allocation.
NASTAD has provided TA around community and evidence-based planning
in Botswana,
Ethiopia,
Cambodia.
Community Organization and Mobilization
NASTAD members have experience in initiating and sustaining community
participatory processes that involve key stakeholders including
PLWHA, youth, clinicians, faith communities, ethnic minority community
leaders, community-based organizations, other governmental agency
personnel, and others. NASTAD members also work in cultivating and
sustaining political will, leadership and commitment at the national,
state, and community levels. NASTAD works in Ethiopia to mobilize
community for PLWHA support and treatment adherence, and partners
with South Africa
Partners on the Masihlanganeni project which promotes PLWHA
involvement in mobilization and system development.
Surveillance
NASTAD draws upon the expertise of state HIV /AIDS epidemiologists
to provide short term assistance in the design and implementation
of data collection protocols, and data analysis, as well as more
long-term TA for the development of HIV/AIDS case reporting systems.
NASTAD has also provided assistance at the regional level in using
available surveillance data to develop
epidemiologic profiles. NASTAD has performed such work in
Haiti and
India.
Monitoring and Evaluation
State AIDS program staff perform program monitoring and quality
assurance, and are also experienced in managing program outcome
evaluation projects. The Global program can provide one-time support
to specific evaluation projects, such as the Botswana Total Community
Mobilization Evaluation. The Global program can also provide ongoing
support at the regional/community level for the development of comprehensive
evaluation plans, data collection tools, data analysis, and use
of data for program planning. The Global program is working in this
area in Zambia.
Program management and development
The Global program provides both short- and long-term TA to NGOs
and public health agencies in proposal writing, program design and
management, and in program monitoring, quality assurance, financial
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