National Programe Management Policies and Guidelines on HIV/AIDS

The HIV/AIDS epidemic carries cultural, social, economic and political implications. Similarly the nature of the epidemic and therefore the response raise pertinent ethical, legal, human rights and administrative issues that demand for guidance in service delivery to ensure standards, equity and accountability. The country has therefore developed tools, standards and guidelines to support implementation of the national program. National policy guidelines were developed in 1993 in a process spearheaded by UAC. These were revised in 1996. A review of the 1996 policy guidelines ( .pdf) has been completed and the exercise of compiling the National AIDS Policy is on-going.

Line ministries are also charged with the responsibility of developing sector specific policies and guidelines. Some of these have already been developed in the areas of VCT ( Policy .pdf and Implementation guidelines .pdf) , PMTCT, ART, and condom use.

A draft national monitoring and evaluation plan has been in place and is currently being reviewed to incorporate new initiatives such as the UNGASS indicators. National level indicators have been agreed on and constitute a key component of the National M&E Framework. A similar exercise for developing district level indicators is also on-going.