What is World AIDS Day?
world AIDS Day (WAD) celebrated every December 1 is one of the most recognized health events worldwide. It is an important venue to raise awareness, commemorate those who have passed on, and celebrate gains in HIV prevention and AIDS treatment coverage. Led by UNAIDS until 2004, world AIDS Campaign thereon coordinated the organizing and determined the global themes in consultation with civil society, organizations and government agencies. (Adopted from World AIDS Campaign, www.worldaidscampaignorg)
The 2011 WAD theme is "Getting to Zero," which builds on campaigns that rally for meeting global commitments in achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. It echoes the 2011-2015 Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS strategy, which envisions "zero new HIV infections, zero AIDS-related deaths, zero discrimination." The last UN Global Report on AIDS saw the global response's contribution in bringing down rates of new HIV infections by nearly 25 percent. However, new infections continue to outpace the number of people living with HIV starting treatment, and the upward trend in investing resources for AIDS flateined in 2009. The strategy's concrete milestones are now enshrined in the UN General Assembly's "Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS- Intensifying our Efforts to Eliminate HIV/AIDS."
What is the 2011 UN Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS?
On June this year, officials of Department of Health together with representative from civil society and the Philippines' Permanent Mission at the United Nations joined other Member-States at the High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, which brought forward the 2011 UN Political Commitment on HIV and AIDS (A/RES/65/277). Unprecendented In global, participation, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration that outlines hold 2015 targrAs including halving sexual and injecting-drugs related transmissions, eliminating, new HIV infections among children, placing 15 million persons with HIV into life-saving treatment, and increasing AIDS spending in low and middle-income countries to at least 22-billion US dollars.
What is the Fifth AMTP Investment Plan?
The Fifth AIDS Medium-Term Plan (5" AMTP) is the Philippines' strategic plan for scaled-up and comprehensive response to HIV and AIDS from 2011 to 2016. The Philippine National AIDS Council led the development of the 5th AMTP as mandated by Republic Act 8504, or the Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998. The Plan envisions the halting of the spread of HIV, its goal seeks to maintain less than 66 cases per 100,000 population by 2016, With operational costing and planning as initial implementation, this year will culminate with the launch of the 5th AMTP investment Plan, which contains critical programs, activities, projects horn different sectors, annualized with financial requirements and possible sources of financing. It intends to be the basis for resource allocation and mobilization for the country AIDS response.
What is the Philippine National AIDS Council?
The Philippine National AIDS Council or PNAC was created by virtue of Executive Order No. 39 in 1992, reconstituted and strengthened by R.A. 8504 to be the central advisory, planning and policy-making body on the prevention and control of AIDS in the country. Chaired by the Secretar Health, the Council Is composed of 26 seats - 17 government (13 from executive departments/agencies, on, each from upper and lower houses of Congress, one each from mayors' and governors' leagues) and le " non-government (two from health/medical professionals, six from NGOs, one from community of people living with HIV). - https://www.affordablecebu.com/
