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This is the fourth National Strategic Plan (NSP) that South Africa has adopted to guide its response to HIV, Tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections. Viewed together, the plans set out in the NSP provide insight into the path we have travelled as a nation to overcome one of the most devastating human challenges of our…
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How the Global Fund’s top donors spend their top dollars. Long-term budget requirements for the AIDS response in South Africa are estimated at R35 – R45 billion (approximately $4.5 – 5.9 billion) per annum by 2020. In 2010, the US spent $698 billion on defence. It is the world’s largest military spender. All of the…
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Last year, on November 22, just days before the commemoration of World AIDS Day, the global HIV community was shocked by an announcement from the Board of Directors of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund). With far less funding available than originally forecast for 2011-2013, the board decided…
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Will local production of active pharmaceutical ingredients offer the health and economic benefits promised by government? The South African government recently announced plans to manufacture active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in partnership with the Swiss-based chemicals and biotechnology company Lonza Ltd. APIs are the active ingredients that are used to produce medicines. Medicines also contain…
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Nine years of PEPFAR The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was initially launched in 2003 as a five-year commitment of $15 billion for 2003–2008. At that time the programme pledged to provide antiretroviral treatment (ART) for two million HIV-positive people, to prevent seven million new infections, and to support care for ten million people…
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How health is structured Our public health care system is divided into several different levels. Each level has particular responsibilities to ensure that people have access to health care services. These levels are the National Department of Health (NDoH), the Provincial Departments of Health (PDoH), and district or municipal health departments. [box] National Department of…
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The new National Strategic Plan on HIV, STIs and TB, 2012-2016 (NSP), like its predecessor, contains a large section on monitoring and evaluation (M&E). But despite ambitious targets in this field, poor M&E followed the last NSP. At the time, the Department of Health lacked the will and the staff to make a success…
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The new National Strategic Plan on HIV, STIs and TB, 2012-2016 (NSP), like its predecessor, contains a large section on monitoring and evaluation (M&E). But despite ambitious targets in this field, poor M&E followed the last NSP. At the time, the Department of Health lacked the will and the staff to make a success…
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If you want to know a government’s real priorities, you’ll find them in the budget Some would argue that a government’s most important policy document is its budget. A budget not only makes promises, it outlines what resources are available to fulfill those promises. If there is no budget, or if the budget is…
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In order to control HIV, we need to be sure we have enough money and that we spend that money effectively. Daygan Eagar of Section27 shows us how to work out the cost of implementing South Africa’s new National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB and STIs. Costing and budgeting may seem like boring and…
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The launch of the National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2007-2011 marked the end of state-sanctioned AIDS denialism in South Africa. Since then, we have taken significant strides in response to HIV/AIDS and TB. Most notable has been the dramatic expansion in our ARV treatment programme; by the middle of 2011 more than 1.79 million people…
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