Training on Monitoring and Evaluation
DUSHANBE, November 24, 2008, - A two-day
training on monitoring and evaluation for the specialists of HIV/AIDS
control and prevention programs and projects is opening at the National
AIDS Center in Dushanbe today.
According to the UNDP Dushanbe Office, the training
is organized by the National AIDS Center jointly with the UNDP/Program
Implementation Unit (PIU) for Global Fund Grants to Fight HIV/IDS, TB
and Malaria (GFATM). The main goal of the training is improving the
quality of HIV prevention and control programs in Tajikistan.
As it was declared by the Executive Director of the
United Nations Aids Program, Dr Peter Piot to effectively control
HIV/AIDS epidemics a country needs to ensure: one national strategy,
one national coordinating body, and one monitoring and evaluation
system to track progress and achieve results. It is known as the "Three
Ones principle", the principle is aimed at ensuring better coordination
among stake holders and scaling up of HIV/AIDS interventions towards
universal access of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
Implementing the "Three Ones principle", a country creates much needed
system of accountability, and ensuring that stakeholders work closely
to build a more effective AIDS response.
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Delegates at Conference Discuss Ways To Prevent Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission, Support Pediatric Care in Central Asia
Delegates from Central Asian countries, United
Nations agencies and aid groups recently met in Tashkent, Uzbekistan,
to discuss methods of preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission and
supporting pediatric HIV/AIDS care in the region, Kazakhstan's Kazinform reports. According to Kazinform, HIV/AIDS in Central Asia is on the rise, partly because of cases of MTCT in hospitals, primarily in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
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Public Health & Education - WHO, Stop TB Partnership, UNITAID Announce New TB Test That Quickly Diagnoses MDR-TB
The World Health Organization, Stop TB Partnership, UNITAID and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
on Monday announced a joint project to distribute a new diagnostic test
for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis that can produce results in two
days instead of the standard two or three months, the New York Times
reports. Difficulty in identifying MDR-TB has been a "major obstacle"
in controlling TB because many patients die or spread the disease while
waiting for test results, the Times reports.
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Unsafe Blood Transfusions, Medical Practices in Central Asia Contributing to Spread of Infectious Diseases, Including HIV, World Bank Report Says
Unsafe blood transfusion services and medical practices in Central Asian countries are contributing to the spread of HIV and other infectious diseases in the region, according to a report recently released by the World Bank, Kazakhstan Today/Gazeta.kz reports. According to the report, of all the people living with HIV worldwide, 5% to 10% contracted the virus through contaminated blood transfusions (Kazakhstan Today/Gazeta.kz, 6/13).
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Group Aimed at Increasing HIV/AIDS Education, Awareness Among Muslim Leaders To Be Formed in Kyrgyzstan
A new organization aimed at increasing HIV/AIDS
education and awareness among Muslim leaders in Central Asia will be
formed in Kyrgyzstan, Tilek Meymanaliyev, executive director of the Central Asia AIDS Control Project, said recently during a meeting in Tajikistan's capital of Dushanbe, the Times of Central Asia reports. The new center will be funded through a grant from the Regional AIDS Fund
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