NASA Tools

NASA offers information on the resource flow of a country’s response to HIV and AIDS and can therefore support the mobilization and application of resources. NASA does not only provide the information needed to report progress towards UNGASS, but can provide more detailed information on financing sources, as well as functions, agents and providers.

The NASA RTS program serves to facilitate the data collection and analysis. While the program is opened, the user of NASA RTS will find a main menu with seven derivative menus: a) File; b) Data Entry; c) Edition; d) Assessment; e) Report; f) Tools and g) Help.

This guide is intended to support the technical capability to conduct the NASA
exercise in the country estimation of HIV and AIDS spending assessments.

Unique to this guideline is the harmonization among the several HIV and AIDS
related programs, interventions and activities. These are captured in the NASA
classification of functions. The proposals establishing the NASA classifications have been discussed and agreed by members of the UNAIDS Global Consortium on Resource Tracking at its meeting held at UNAIDS headquarters in September 2005.

This presentation shows an overview of the concepts and components behind the National AIDS Spending Assessment framework.

Presented by:
Carlos Avila
Resource Tracking and Projections Unit
UNAIDS EXO/EVA

This document presents the classification to produce National AIDS Spending Assessments (NASA), which was designed for tracking resources of the national responses to the HIV epidemic.

NASA seeks to ascertain the flows of funds used to finance national responses to the HIV epidemic. Therefore, the resource tracking process follows the financial transactions from their origin down to the final destination (i.e. the beneficiaries receiving goods and services). NASA is not limited to tracking health expenditures, it also tracks non-health expenditures such as social mitigation, education, labour, justice, and other sectors related to the multisectoral HIV response.

The National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) is a resource-tracking framework for monitoring the annual flow of funds used to finance the response to HIV/AIDS in a given country. The framework aims to capture HIV/AIDS expenditures that reflect the continuum of services employed in the fight against the epidemic. Drawing from the principles of a number of accounting frameworks as well as the interests of local and international HIV/AIDS stakeholders, NASA aims to serve as an assessment and planning tool helping to inform the gap estimation process and the UNGASS monitoring requirement. The tool is commissioned by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) country offices in collaboration with the national AIDS councils.