This case study documents the experience of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against AIDS (PANCAP) to mobilize the response to AIDS in the region. It highlights both the Partnership's successes as well as the challenges it continues to face in supporting effective action on AIDS in all of its twenty nine countries.

The present guide complements the indicators included in National AIDS programmes: a guide to monitoring and evaluation, by refining the indicators that have already been defined and proposing new ones that are in relatively early phases of development and use. These new indicators are included so as to ensure that policies and programmes benefit from the lessons learnt during the past decade and to provide experience of their measurement and use.

The cost-effectiveness analysis is an important tool in the prioritysetting process of strategic planning. In responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic the costs and consequences of the initiatives proposed in an AIDS programme must be known to the decision-makers to make best use of scarce resources.

For many years, humanitarian and relief organizations did not see HIV as a priority in emergencies, focusing their attention on lifesaving measures such as the provision of health care, water, food and shelter. HIV was not seen as a direct threat to life, nor was the need to address HIV/AIDS as a long-term development issue fully understood. With the evidence of the HIV/AIDS dimension in the recent southern Africa crisis this perception is now changing. Coordinated responses to increased HIV vulnerability in emergency settings are starting to be integrated into humanitarian and relief agency workplans at the earliest possible stage
of an emergency.

UN Organizations are increasingly being challenged to demonstrate their relevance as well as their ability to work together and make the best use of their collective resources. More than ever, therefore, the spotlight is on the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and its contribution to the AIDS effort at the country level, and on the performance of UN Theme Groups on HIV/AIDS.

Улучшению координации между многосторонними учреждениями и международными донорами в рамках борьбы со СПИДом.

Report on estimates of resource requirements for HIV prevention, treatment and care; support for orphans and vulnerable children; programme and human resource costs.

This UNAIDS Best Practice Collection publication is intended as a resource for civil society, groups of people living with HIV, national programme managers, international and national policy-makers and donors to better appreciate and support the concept of involving more community-based organizations in national plans for providing HIV care and treatment. In 2004, the nongovernmental organization, Sidaction, with support from UNAIDS and WHO, conducted a survey of the community response to HIV treatment needs in Africa. The document describes the self-reported experiences and achievements of community-based organizations already involved in providing care; this Best Practice provides strategic information on some of the needs, challenges and opportunities that are specifi c to community-based organizations in scaling up access to care and treatment; it demonstrates the current and potential value of their work and suggests ways forward to assess, support, and enlarge the scope and impact of that work. It is hoped that this Best Practice will inspire other countries and regions to replicate the untiring work of African community-based organizations, as well as demonstrate to both policy makers and donors the valuable contributions of civil society to the response to the AIDS epidemic, especially with regards to provision of care and treatment. This survey was the fi rst attempt to map and describe the contributions made by community groups, including those founded by persons living with HIV, in increasing access to antiretroviral therapy. Urgent and ongoing support to their efforts, in the context of a viable public health response, is a critical part of an effective and comprehensive response to HIV.

Основной целью настоящего документа является предоставление Национальным советам по СПИДу (или аналогичным учреждениям) технического руководства для измерения обновленного списка ключевых показателей хода выполнения Декларации о приверженности делу борьбы с ВИЧ/СПИДом, принятой государствами-членами Организации Объединенных Наций на специальной сессии Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН в июне 2001 г. Эти руководящие принципы содержат техническую информацию относительно детельных параметров
ключевых показателей, требуемых данных и основы для их составления, а также относительно их интерпретации. Целью настоящих руководящих принципов является обеспечение максимально возможной достоверности, внутренней последовательности и согласованности полученных оценочных данных по показателям на страновом уровне и во времени. В частности, руководящие
принципы ставят своей целью обеспечение согласованности по типам данных и используемым методам расчета.

This evaluation measures the effectiveness and efficiency of the AIDS Competence Programme’s process and outcomes. The evaluation’s approach relies both on methods used in AIDS programme evaluations, and accepted sociological evaluation methods that define community capacity or the individual capacity (i.e.,economic, social, pedagogical and politically related outcomes).