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Editorial: The new hiv & TB plan – Three months to get it right

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
TAC fights for Active Aids Councils

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
What is a Strategy?

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
We need excellent costing and budgeting

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
Time to get to work

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

TB in the new NSP

  Early on in the new NSP it states: “One of the key decisions of the consultations was to develop a single integrated strategy for

NSP highlights

  The new NSP contains a vast number of broad and specific targets It would be impossible to discuss all of them here Instead, we have

NSP Basics

The full name for the new NSP is “National Strategic Plan for HIV and AIDS, STIs and TB, 2012-2016” Vision of the new NSP The vision of

Issue 1: Introduction

  On 1 December, World AIDS Day 2011, TAC and SECTION27 joined the rest of South Africa and the world in welcoming the launch of a new