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| Fast Facts: |
| • Project
Document |
| Location: |
Southern
Sudan |
| Duration: |
Phase
I: September 2006-September 2008
Phase II: September 2008-September
2011 |
| Focus
area: |
Responding
to HIV/AIDS |
| Donors: |
Global
Fund to fight HIV/AIDS Tuberculosis
and Malaria (GFATM) |
| Total
budget: |
US$
8, 817,170.00 |
| Partners: |
World
Health Organization
Southern Sudan AIDS Commission
UNICEF
NGOs (TBD) |
| Delivery
for 2007:
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US$
2,880,000 |
| Contact
person in UNDP: |
Tesmerelna
Atsbeha, Programme Specialist
tesmerelna.atsbeha@undp.org
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Background
It is believed that the civil war contributed
towards the limited spread of HIV/AIDS,
as the country was closed off from extensive
interaction with other countries. Southern
Sudan therefore experiences a relatively
low incidence of HIV/AIDS with HIV/AIDS
prevalence rates estimated around 2.6%
of the adult population. The peace process
and subsequent opening of the Southern
Sudan borders and the interior, may
well present a problem with the potential
risk of increased HIV/AIDS transmission.
There is limited statistical evidence
and data to provide an accurate picture
of the patterns and key drivers of the
epidemic in the country.
The 2004 Sudan Millennium Development
Goals Unified Interim Report states
that since September 2002, Sudan has
faced a countrywide challenge when
it comes to HIV/AIDS. There are however
regional variations in that the prevalence
of HIV/AIDS infection is higher in
the Southern states, Eastern states,
Khartoum and White Nile State. Almost
all transmission, 94%, is the result
of heterosexual transmission, with
vertical transmission from mother
to child accounting for 2.4%. Sudan’s
situation is made even more difficult
since the epidemic has taken a grip
in neighbouring countries –
and there is free movement across
the porous borders. HIV prevalence
rates may be higher in areas that
have experienced greater population
mobility and contact with other neighbouring
countries, such as Uganda, DRC, and
Ethiopia that are believed to have
higher HIV/AIDS prevalence rates.
Objectives
• The objective of the HIV/AIDS
Prevention and Care Programme in Southern
Sudan is to improve the knowledge of
HIV/AIDS and the practise of its preventive
measures in the general adult population,
youth and vulnerable population sub-groups.
• To develop and expand treatment,
care and support services for people
and families living with HIV/AIDS.
• To build the capacity of the
New Sudan National AIDS Council (NSNAC),
NGOs and local institutions to effectively
manage and monitor HIV/AIDS programmes.
Snapshots of the project's major achievements
• In July 2007, the process for
the development of the National Strategic
Framework for HIV/AIDS began with a
stakeholder’s workshop in Rumbek
and a launch in Juba. The document is
currently in its final stages of review.
• In August 2007, the process
for the development of the National
Behaviour Change Strategy began, through
a social mapping exercise in 10 counties
from 5 states. A team of consultants,
together with counterparts from state
and county AIDS commission offices,
is currently in the field collecting
information through qualitative methods
to develop the NBC strategy.
• The first antiretroviral (ARV)
treatment site in Yei hospital was opened
in October 2007 under the Global Fund
to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
(GFATM).
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