HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting

June 3-7, 2008, in Kampala, Uganda

Theme: Scaling Up Through Partnerships: Overcoming Obstacles to Implementation

The HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting theme recognizes the rapid expansion of HIV/AIDS programs worldwide. At the meeting, implementers exchanged best practices and lessons learned during the implementation of HIV/AIDS programs, with a focus on building the capacity of local prevention, treatment, and care programs; maintaining quality control; and coordination among partners.

The following five SCMS abstracts were accepted for oral presentations:        

 
• Mozambique: “Embedding Demand Forecasting in Collaborative Efforts to Increase Access to ART: How Mozambique Did It” (presenting author: David Jamieson)      
• Mozambique:  “All for One - One for All: Coordinated Procurement Makes Safety Stock Safe” (presenting author: Joao Texeira)      
• Rwanda:  “Distribution of Drugs and Commodities to Rwandan Health Districts Gets Boost From Improved Warehouse Management Operations” (presenting author: Ambassador Zephyr Mutanguha, CAMERWA)      
• Cote d’Ivoire:  “Back to the Future: Paper-based System Helps Improve Forecasting of ART Data in Cote d’Ivoire” (presenting author: Moise Touhon)    

Poster Presentation:

The PMO abstract “Managing Performance to Achieve Scale-Up: Going beyond Traditional Monitoring and Evaluation to Strengthen Systems”  (presenting author: Phillip Savio) was selected as a poster presentation.

Collaborative Efforts:

The SCMS office in Vietnam has had two abstracts accepted to the PEPFAR Implementers’ Conference, written collaboratively with other organizations in country.

• The first abstract titled “Leveraging Resources to Work Together to Provide Care and Treatment for Children Living with HIV in Vietnam”  was accepted as an oral presentation and written jointly with the CDC and Clinton Foundation.

• The second, accepted as a poster titled “Challenges and lessons learned in establishing a successful CD4 Count system using FACSCount in Vietnam” ,  was written with the CDC and Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control.