Editorial: The new hiv & TB plan – Three months to get it right
Delays at the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) has meant that the new NSP (National Strategic Plan) will now only be ready in March 2017.
TAC fights for Active Aids Councils
For the new NSP to be a success, it is essential that provincial, district and local AIDS councils (PACs, DACs, LACs) start playing a more active part in the fight…
What is a Strategy?
“The NSP must resist the temptation to be everything to everyone; it cannot – and should not – become the focal point for dealing with all social ills that undermine…
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…
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…
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…
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…