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In recognition of the severity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, international organizations, policymakers, and donors have made bold declarations and set targets for curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS, mitigating its impact, and extending treatment access. For example, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), defined by the international community to serve as a framework for measuring country development progress, aim to halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by the year 2015. In addition, in 2001, 189 nations adopted the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS at the first-ever United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS; this Declaration covers 10 priorities, from prevention to treatment to funding, and was designed as a blueprint to meet the HIV/AIDS MDGs.
Mongolia for the first time produced NASA which covers period 2008-2009 along with Mongolian framework for National AIDS Spending Assessment methodology. All matrices stated in NASA framework were compiled except matrices by Beneficiary Population.
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According to the latest available estimates, there are currently about 2.5 million people living with HIV or AIDS in India, corresponding to a HIV prevalence rate of 0.36 percent for the population ages 15–49 (IIPS 2007). While HIV prevalence thus remains relatively low, there are several factors that are unique to India’s HIV epidemic, and need to be taken into account when assessing the impact of HIV and AIDS.
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Presentation Outline
• AIDS in Asia
• Funding for Prevention and Care
• Vulnerability to the Crisis
• Targeted Response is Key
• ART Increases Program Costs
• Response Publicly Financed
• Summary
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The HIV epidemic in Indonesia is among the fastest growing in Asia, and limited funding is available for HIV/AIDS control. The epidemic is concentrated among injecting drug users (IDUs) and their sexual partners in most parts of the country, but generalised in some other parts.
This raises a number of important policy questions, about the adequacy of the level of available funding, the appropriateness of its use, and its financial sustainability. This paper puts these questions in context of the present Indonesian health system.
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The study is targeted at the strategic decision-making level:
- Are current responses effective and cost-effective?
- What is the scale-up perspective?
- Priority Setting of Injecting Drug User (IDU) interventions in Asia
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The HIV/AIDS situation in Cambodia can be described as improving but fragile, with the estimated prevalence rate slowly declining, remaining consistently below one percent for the last three years.
This report includes the results of the second National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA II) in Cambodia, covering the fiscal years 2007 and 2008. NASA II was carried out from December 2008 to January 2009 under the leadership of the National AIDS Authority (NAA). It was designed to build in a coherent manner on NASA I which was carried out at the end of 2007 and covered the year 2006.
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The global economic crisis threatens recent gains in health and poverty reduction in developing countries. What is the effect of the crisis on HIV programmes, especially in high HIV prevalence countries? What are the possible consequences? What can be done to avoid negative impacts? Advanced economies are projected to suffer deep recessions in 2009, with their gross domestic product (GDP) contracting by 5% on average—the first such fall in 60 years. This is generating fears that official development assistance, and in particular resources for social sector spending, including funding for HIV services and commodities, would remain flat during the next few years.
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Presentation on Estimating Resource Needs and Gaps for Harm Reduction In Asia at the IHRA’s 20th International Conference, 20-23 April 2009.
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This report supports the proposed UNDP financed technical assistance intended to introduce the National AIDS Spending Assessment methodology to the National Advisory Committee (NACA). Further development, implementation and institutionalization of the NASA methodology is expected to be lead by the NACA in order to standardize the classification of HIV and AIDS expenditures among all stakeholders. It is projected that NACA’s analysis of the tracked expenditures will enable valuable information to be disclosed that will influence the strategic allocation of future resources to Fiji’s HIV/AIDS initiative. Data generated through NASA can also be used to measure the nation’s commitment and effort, which is an important component of the UNGASS Declaration, and therefore will also help Fiji to address some of the gaps that currently exist in its UNGASS reporting.
This final report outlines the amount the Republic of the Fiji Islands spent on the HIV/AIDS initiative over the last two and a half years (2007-2009) from various local and external financing sources.
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The National HIV/AIDS Action Plan and Budget for 2005-2006 was produced following extensive consultation about the extent of the problem, and what needs to be done about it. Stakeholders – i.e. government officials, representatives of beneficiary groups, broader civil society actors, and donor partners – are all agreed that the Action Plan provides the single point of reference for the HIV/AIDS response in Nepal.
The 2005-06 Action Plan addresses needs and issues that have emerged as a result of the current broader social, economic, and political context of the country and of developments within the community of stakeholders in HIV and AIDS.