Dr. Socorro Gross-Galiano

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Sustained Response to HIV
Financial Challenges

• Dr. Socorro Gross-Galiano
• Assistant Director

Ministerial Meeting on HIV and Development in
Latin America and the Caribbean ECOSOC - Annual
Ministerial Review Jamaica, 4-6 June 2009
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Where does the financing for the response come
from?
We should sustain our support to countries with
funding gaps and avoid setbacks on what we have
already achieved
HIV financing
in selected countries
Domestic
International
Source UNAIDS, 2008 ( last available year)
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Sustained Response to HIV
Financial Challenges


What is the roadmap ?

• Prevention
  
  
  (Young People / Risk Groups, Vertical
  Transmission)

• Early Detection

• Interventions that address
  
  the social and
  epidemiological reality

• PHC based Health Systems
  with
  positive synergies

• Mechanisms to improve
  
  interventions, efficiency and reduce costs

• Strengthen inter-sector collaboration

• Eliminate stigma and discrimination

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Components of a Sustained HIV Response

• Protecting achievements
  (ART, blood safety)
• Making progress in areas lacking adequate
  attention (high-risk populations needs, stigma
  and discrimination, PMTCT, sexual transmission
  prevention, epidemiological surveillance, )

Health sector Provides important role of the
response