Technical Task Team Reps Report Back

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Technical Task Team Reps Report Back

• Yezingane Network
• Technical Task Team Reps Report Back
• 19 November 2009

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Treatment Care and Support TTT

• Key Engagements
• Policy Guidelines for HIV Counselling and Testing
  (HCT)- final draft
• Task Sharing/Shifting-presented to NHC
• Adult, Paediatric, PMTCT and HIV TB Guidelines-
  many engagements
• Orphan Estimation and Institutionalization of
  Surveillance System-presentation by DSD-linking
  maternal IDs and newly registered babies to track
  nos of new orphans when maternal deaths are
  registered
• Community Care Givers Policy Framework (CCGPF
  Developing PMTCT guidelines
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Treatment Care and Support TTT

• Upcoming Issues and Critical Opportunities
• Community Caregiver Policy Management Framework
• PMTCT Social Mobilisation
• HCT Guidelines Follow up

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Law Human Rights TTT

• This task team got off to a slow start but has
  now met four times and also held a law and human
  rights sector meeting which was very well
  attended.
• The Childrens sector was represented on this
  task team by Joan van Niekerk, who has attended 3
  of the 4 meetings and presented at each on
  childrens issues.

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Law Human Rights TTT

• Highlights of participation issues discussed
  and action motivated
• A general overview of the impact of HIV and AIDS
  on children was given as this is not well
  understood by those who concentrate on adult
  issues.
• A strong motivation has been made to change law
  and policy to give effect to the protection of
  childrens property rights. Protection at present
  is inadequate as this is a function of the high
  court which is usually inaccessible to children
  and certainly children from rural areas.

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Law Human Rights Task Team

• Issues discussed
• A draft policy has been developed by the
  department of Health to support efforts to reduce
  and deal with the problem of stigma and HIV and
  AIDS which has consequences for the care and
  protection of children who are infected and
  affected. Initially the policy made no mention of
  children. After motivation some references to
  children have been made but these are not yet
  adequate.
• Circumcision new policy documents have not
  taken into account the provisions of the
  Childrens Act. The linkages and appropriate
  provisions were motivated for inclusion in the
  new health policies.
• Sexual assault and access to services the
  childrens sector representative consistently
  flags the impact of abuse on children and the
  need for children to be consistently supported in
  their need to access services, especially the
  provision of health services to prevent HIV
  infection.

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Law Human Rights Task Team

• Overall
• Apart from the secretariat, the childrens sector
  representative has been one of the most
  consistent participant in this task team both
  in terms of attendance and participation.
• Members of the childrens sector are invited to
  bring any issues relating to law and human rights
  to the sector representative in order to put them
  on the committee agenda.

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Prevention Technical Task Team
CATHOLIC INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION

• Key Highlights
• Structural
• Draft terms of reference for the Technical Task
  Teams
• Appointment of Administrator for TTTs
• Issues
• Prevalence (For each person on treatment there
  are six new infections)
• Policy (Male circumcision, PMTCT, VCT, Barrier
  methods) increased scope of PTTT to look at all
  government departments
• Failure to apply and target prevention resources
• Lack of Education, Gender inequality and poverty
  contribute to increased infections. Our responses
  on these have not been adequate.
• Know Your Epidemic Know your response
• Integrated Prevention Policy being developed

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Prevention Technical Task Team
CATHOLIC INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION

• Opportunities for Children's Sector Engagements
• Continued engagements with policy developments,
  TTT to review departmental policies. Sector to
  ensure these policies are child friendly.
• Sector efforts to continue call for Education
  for All. Prevention Education to be scaled up but
  importantly the Education system as whole needs
  to be strengthened.
• Know Your Epidemic Know Your Response,
  Children's sector can be mobilised to work with
  Provincial Prevention Technical Task Team
• Sector can provide models and templates in the
  development of the Integrated Prevention Policy
• The sector must continue to make inputs into the
  HIV/AIDS research agenda

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Research Monitoring and Evaluation
Technical Task Team

• Establishment of TTT (1st teleconference Sept
  2008)
• Eight meetings / teleconferences held btw June
  08-Nov 09 (although attendance is generally poor)
• Improved administration around meetings
• Extensive inputs to the process and terms of
  reference for the NSP Mid-Term Review
• Input to the Know-your-epidemic and
  Know-your-response study (USAID)
• Input into UNGASS report preparations
• Recommendations for establishment of SANAC ME
  Unit
• Information sharing on sectoral ME activities

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Research Monitoring and Evaluation
Technical Task Team

• Opportunities and critical issues
• Essential that strong, well resourced and
  appropriately staffed ME Unit established
• Mid Term Review to be completed by December 2009
  NB to engage this
• Feb 2010, opportunity to input draft UNGASS
  report consultative meeting