NAC, CSOs Brainstorm on Solutions to Sustain HIV Response Interventions

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As Liberia adopts strategies to meet its global targets by ending AIDS in 2030 as a public health threat, the National AIDS Commission (NAC) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) continue to hold dialogues on how best to sustain different interventions in the National HIV response.

It can be recalled in August 2024, the Government of Liberia, through the National AIDS Commission, hosted a national dialogue to develop a Sustainability Road Map to solicit stakeholders’ views in sustaining all HIV-related programs after 20230.

The Sustainability Road Map is a country-led plan aimed at achieving global AIDS targets by 2030. The dialogue with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) captured Part ‘A’ Phase-2 of the Road Map, the document that seeks to solicit inputs from CSOs on how HIV response can be sustained after the 2030 benchmark.

Additionally, the road map focuses on maintaining the impact and achievements made beyond 2030.  When developed, it will outline steps to transform health and HIV-related political leadership, policies, finances, systems, and services. It will also align with existing strategies and plans, including those for HIV, health, and related social activities.

The proposed transformation in the road map will however inform future revisions in national strategies, including those related to HIV and other health sectors including a multi-sectoral strategy.

Speaking during the forum, representatives of various CSOs pledged their unwavering support to the fight against HIV and AIDS by using their various platforms. Providing possible suggestions to the fight, the CSOs called for a robust resource mobilization team guided by a multi-sectorial approach with the National AIDS Commission taking the lead.

Attached are photos from the joint meeting at NAC Central Office on January 29, 2025 with over 20 CSOs and Partners in attendance.

               

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The first attempt to establish the National AIDS Commission was made in the year 2000. However, it was not until June 2007 that the National AIDS Commission was formally reconstituted with the aim of promoting a more multi sectoral response beyond the health sector. Its purpose is to serve as the primary national body to coordinate, monitor, and mobilize resources for the national response to HIV.

The Commission is chaired by the President of the Republic of Liberia. It aims to promote the active involvement of the private and public sectors and includes all major prevention, care and treatment components, such as HIV prevention among most-at-risk populations, condom promotion, treatment of sexually transmitted infections, voluntary counselling and testing and Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission services, blood safety, ARV treatment and treatment of opportunistic infections, and Orphan and Vulnerable Children Support.

The Commission set up a steering committee, which developed a draft legislation and an initial strategic framework for HIV in 2008. The full functioning of the Commission was delayed due to delays in finalizing its legal status. The appointment of an Executive Director in February 2009; the passage into law of the Commission’s Act in2010, and the completion and launch of the HIV and AIDS National Strategic Framework 2010- 2014 marked the beginning of a more effective coordination of a truly multi sectoral response.

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