Nepal has many of the socio economic preconditions for a generalized epidemic and is likely to experience this in the near future. Given the lag time for behavior change, following interventions, and the slow pace of health care reform, it is in Nepal’s interests to proactively respond to the epidemic as if it was in its generalized form. Challenges, that HMG will need to tackle, include how to build and sustain funding and funding sources for a multi sectoral HIV/AIDS programme, and how to protect these funds from competing national priorities such as defense expenditure; how to decentralize funding and implementation programmes; and how to rapidly build implementation capacity at the national and, more importantly, at the sub national level.
The vision of the Nepal HIV/AIDS Strategy includes an appropriately positioned, adequately resourced and capacitated, NCASC as the technical authority of a national programme. This defines the NCASC as a critical resource to the public private partnership to tackle the epidemic. All stakeholders have recognized that, in order to play this role,the NCASC needs to be reformed and strengthened. As a first step towards this, the Nepal Initiative asked that an exercise be carried out to review the vision for the NCASC in the Strategy and to define the roles and functions of the NCASC including defining its core competencies and needed technical assistance.
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Publisher:
GoN, UNDP, UNAIDS
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Type / Script:
Progress Report
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Keywords:
AIDS, DISEASES AND CARRIERS OF DISEASES, HIV/AIDS, HIV INFECTIONS, IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASES, VIRAL DISEASES, AIDS PREVENTION, ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, BLOOD SAFETY, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, DISEASES, AIDS PREVENTION, DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL, AIDS CONTROL, HEALTH, COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES
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Thematic Group: UNAIDS
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HIV/AIDS
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Thesaurus:
10.03.01
- Disease Prevention And Control
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