A Busv Schedule for the
Global Fund Round 4 Programme on HIV/AIDS
- Access to Care & Treatment
focus
The year 2006 brought in it's
wake a flurry of activity for the
Global Fund Round 4 Programme
on HIV/AIDS "Access To Care &
Treatment" team. A three day
orientation training programme
on Management Information
Systems (MIS) was conducted at
Manipur on January 16-18, 2006.
Mr. Phanindra Babu, Programme
Manager (MIS), of the Programme
Management Unit at PFI, was the
resource person at the training
programme. Team members from
the district level networks and
Manipur Networks of Positive
People (MNP+), participated at the
programme.
The second coordination meeting
with the National AIDS Control
Organization (NACO) was held at
the Population Foundation of India,
on January 16, 2006. Represen-
tatives from the UNICEF, UNAIDS,
the PH and the Core sub-grantees
of the Global Fund Programme,
participated at the meeting, which
was chaired by Ms Sujatha Rao,
Additional Secretary, Health
Ministry, and Director General of
the NACO.
The Country Coordination
Mechanism (CCM) meeting for the
Global Fund Programme took place
on January 18, 2006 at the Ministry
of Health, Nirman Bhawan.
Mr. P.K. Hota, Secretary Health,
chaired the meeting. Mr.A.R.
Nanda, Executive Director, PFI, was
a special invitee to the meeting.
The State Coordination Committee
meeting with the Tami! Nadu State
AIDS Control Society was held on
January 18, 2006, followed by the
meeting with the Karnataka State
AIDS Control Society on January
28, 2006. The sub-grantees of the
Global Fund were represented at
the meeting.
A two day orientation training
programme on Programme and
Management Information Systems
(MIS) was conducted in Nagaland
on February 6-7, 2006. Ms. Rashmi
Sharma, Programme Associate,
and Ms. Aparna G, M&E Associate
with the Programme Management
Unit at the PFI, were the resource
persons at the training programme.
Participants included team members
from the District Level Networks
and the Nagaland Networks of
Positive People (NNP+).
State level coordination meetings
were held with the State AIDS
Control Societies of Andhra
Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland and
Maharashtra. A meeting of the
Project Advisory Board took place
on February 13, 2006. A review
meeting of the PH - Global Fund
Project Team was held at Pune on
February 21-24, 2006. The
objective of the meeting was to
review the progress of the project
and identify, in the process, gaps
and possible ways of filling these
gaps at the central and state levels.
The meeting concluded with a
summing up of all the issues related
to the Global Fund project and also
thoughts on the activities for the
second year of the project.
A number of meetings were held in
the month of March as well. On
March 13 and 14, 2006, a two day
coordination meeting with the
Indian Network of Positive People
(lNP+) was held at Chennai.
A meeting with the Engender
Health Society, and the INP+ took
place at the PFI on March 20,
2006.
The PFI office at Nagaland
coordinated a visit of the persons
of the Nagaland State AIDS Control
Society (SACS) to Tamil Nadu. The
visit was termed an 'exposure visit' .
Fourteen members of the Nagaland
SACS visited Namakkal, Tamil
Nadu, along with Mr. Visiatho
Nyuwi, Assistant State Coordinator,
PFI, for an 'exposure visit' to
Treatment Counselling Centres
(TCCs), District Level Networks
(DLNs) and Positive Living Centres
(PLCs). They also visited
Antiretroviral (ART) centres, the
International Training & Education
Centre on HIV and the Government
Hospital at Tambaram.
SYNOVATE made a presentation
of the formative phase of the
Operation Research studies, for the
Technical Resource Team at the
PH, on March 17, 2006. Operation
Research Studies on defining
palliative care and a basket of
services of the Comprehensive Care
and Support Centre and the
documentation of capacity building
institutions are in progress.
A team of two members of the
'Developing Country NGOs
Delegation, Global Fund for AIDS,
TB & Malaria visited the PH, at New
Delhi on March 23, 2006. The
delegation was led by Ms. Rita
Arauz Molina, Board Member of the
Global Fund.
Activities planned for the next few
months include a national
consultative workshop on palliative
care; preparation of the final reports
of the 4 Operation Research
studies; a review meeting of the PH
and the Global Fund team; initiation
of two more Operation Research
studies; an orientation programme
on Management Information
Systems (MIS)for the TCCs and the
DLNs; establishment of 4 TCCs
and strengthening of 22 DLNs;
establishment of 1 PLC to function
from Maharashtra; setting up of two
Certified Education and Training
Centres (CETCs) and one training
base for the north east by the
Engender Health Society; service
quality from two corporate
Antiretroviral (ART) Centres and
initiation of the Phase II planning
process.