We need excellent costing and budgeting
A failure to ensure that costing and budgeting processes are properly managed from the start is likely to result in an NSP that is not fully implementable. Given that the…
Show us the money: Can government deliver on its health promises?
[caption id="attachment_437" align="alignnone" width="567"] Members of the organisation Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS (GAPA), which provides food and day care for children with HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Photo by Omar…
Time to get to work
View this infographic larger here In order for the new NSP to make a meaningful impact, it must move beyond a mere policy document and into our clinics, institutions and…
Budget process Infographic
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TB in the new NSP
[caption id="attachment_388" align="alignnone" width="567"] Photo by Chelsea Maclachlan.[/caption] Early on in the new NSP it states: “One of the key decisions of the consultations was to develop a single…
NSP highlights
[caption id="attachment_420" align="alignnone" width="567"] Photo by Roulé le Roux/Médecins Sans Frontières.[/caption] The new NSP contains a vast number of broad and specific targets. It would be impossible to discuss…
COSTING THE NSP: Making the most of our money
[caption id="attachment_496" align="alignnone" width="567"] Coins change hands in Khayelitsha township, South Africa. Photo by Laura Van Der Pohl, courtesy of Photoshare.[/caption] In order to control HIV, we need to…
NSP Basics
[caption id="attachment_163" align="alignnone" width="567"] Photo by Bruno de Cock/Médecins Sans Frontières.[/caption] The full name for the new NSP is “National Strategic Plan for HIV and AIDS, STIs and TB, 2012-2016”.…
Issue 1: Introduction
[caption id="attachment_485" align="alignnone" width="567"] Photo by Alon Skuy, courtesy of Treatment Action Campaign Archive.[/caption] On 1 December, World AIDS Day 2011, TAC and SECTION27 joined the rest of South…
Issue 2: Introduction
[caption id="attachment_491" align="alignnone" width="567"] In the foothills of the Southern Drakensberg Mountains in KwaZulu-Natal Province, rural residents wait to be seen at a temporary medical station. Although all South Africans…