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Updates on MLPC Working Group Presented by Juliette Edzeame for Speaker

Updates on MLPC Working Group Presented by Juliette Edzeame for Speaker GDC HIV Mainstreaming Network Meeting Johannesburg March 2012. Background.

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Updates on MLPC Working Group Presented by Juliette Edzeame for Speaker

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  1. Updates on MLPC Working Group Presented by Juliette Edzeamefor Speaker GDC HIV Mainstreaming Network Meeting JohannesburgMarch 2012

  2. Background • At 2010 HIV network meeting for GDC FP held in Kenya, working group for FP from Medium and Lower Prevalence Countries (MLPC) formed to address specific challenges confronting mainstreaming in these countries. • Speaker for working group elected from Ghana

  3. Definitions According to GDC • external mainstreaming must be implemented in all GDC programmes/projects in Sub-Saharan countries with generalized epidemics (HIV prevalence of 1% and above) So… Countries with HIV prevalence below 1% are not required to mainstream HIV

  4. Definitions • Countries with HIV prevalence greater than 4% are classified as High Prevalence Countries (HPCs) • Countries with HIV prevalence between 1% and 4% are classified as Medium and Lower Prevalence Countries (MLPC) • all Focal Persons from MLPC are eligible to join the MLPC working group.

  5. Current membership • Benin • Burkina Faso • Burundi • Ghana • Guinea • Ethiopia • Rwanda

  6. Goals: What are we working on? Working group jointly learns and exchanges about: • Adapting external HIV mainstreaming to situations in MLPCs • Using mainstreaming tools and processes (3 mainstreaming questions, systematic review and adaptation process) for other related topics • Extending Work place programmes (WPP) to cover other health problems

  7. How do we work? • Working group achieves its objectives by working via the following means: • Agreeing on a time bound work plan with goals and responsibilities • Communicating, exchange and sharing of experiences and jointly working on issues and documents via the interactive platform on mainstreaming HIV in GDC • Periodic thematic meetings in member countries

  8. since inception… • First MLPC working group meeting held – June 2011 in Bujumbura, Burundi • TOR finalised • Work plan for 2012 developed • Exchange between members on going

  9. Work plan 2012

  10. Next working group meeting is in Ghana!!23rd – 26th October, 2012

  11. As part of the agenda… • Capacity development for FP (topic yet to be agreed on) Topics of interest include: • HIV related issues such as SRH, population studies, GBV etc. • Employee Wellbeing programmes (including Cost Benefit Analysis of Workplace Programmes • any others?

  12. Thank you!!

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