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Original Post Date: 2010-09-21 Time: 12:00:03 Posted By: News Poster
By Jana-Mari Smith
NAMIBIA has begun to formulate a response strategy for HIV-AIDS which could mean that the lessons learnt locally, during the battle against the pandemic over the past years, will be incorporated into the next World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Strategy for HIV-AIDS.
The landmark decision by the WHO earlier this year, responding to international suggestions from health ministers, means that the next WHO Global Health Sector Strategy for HIV-AIDS 2011-2015 will incorporate the health ‘wish list’ of countries who have dealt with and experienced, the pandemic on different levels and to different degrees.
According to WHO, this “broad consultative process” will ensure a “more comprehensive and accelerated response to the HIV-AIDS pandemic.”
According to a WHO spokesperson, the consultative meetings and the final framework document outlining Namibia’s input into the next WHO strategy “will ensure that the concerns and needs of Namibia and its citizens, infected and affected by HIV-AIDS, are taken into account in responding to the HIV pandemic.”
Locally, the first step to create a draft Namibian response, took place last week at a consultative meeting held in Windhoek.
The Ministry of Health and Social Services and WHO, hosted the National AIDS Executive Committee’s (NAEC) extraordinary stakeholder consultation last week, to begin talks on Namibia’s particular input in the next WHO HIV-AIDS response strategy for the next four years.
According to representatives at the meeting, the consultative process has come at an opportune time, as the WHO HIV-AIDS universal access plan ends, and Namibia launches its new national guidelines for antiretroviral therapy.
Dr Magda Robalo, the WHO representative in Namibia, said since the launch of the previous WHO response plan, many things have changed and the new strategy will be moulded to suit a changed HIV-AIDS landscape.
She said the new response plan, aimed at incorporating global concerns, is needed because the “HIV pandemic has been changing over time. The HIV environment is changing. We need to be more relevant to the current landscape which was different from when we started.”
Major changes have occurred globally in the fight against the pandemic.
“People were dying then. Now they live longer,” Robalo explained.
The WHO global strategy will set global goals for the health sector; guide countries’ national HIV responses, and prioritisation of HIV and broader health investments, as well as provide a framework for concerted WHO actions at country level.
In Namibia it is estimated that 18 per cent of the population are infected with HIV-AIDS. Studies show that while progress has been made in the response to the pandemic, and specifically in lowering the amount of annual deaths related to AIDS, the number of people living with HIV continues to increase.
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Original date published: 21 September 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009210179.html?viewall=1