NEWS
Health Policy Initiative Shares Tool for Estimating the Impact and Cost of Scaling Up Male Circumcision
The Health Policy Initiative presented experiences and lessons learned from applying the new Decision Makers' Program Planning Tool (DMPPT) at the "Southern and Eastern Africa Regional Male Circumcision Costing and Impact Meeting" in Johannesburg, South Africa in late January 2010. The model helps estimate the potential impacts and cost of scaling up male circumcision services. read more...
Health Policy Initiative Launches RETA: Resource Estimation Tool for Advocacy
The USAID | Health Policy Initiative in the Greater Mekong Region and China is pleased to announce the release of a new tool to estimate resource needs for scaling up comprehensive HIV prevention programming for men who have sex with men and transgenders. RETA, the Resource Estimation Tool for Advocacy, estimates the resources needed for a five-year period, based on user inputs of population size estimates, target coverage levels, and local costs of HIV prevention services. read more...
Health Policy Initiative Commemorates World AIDS Day 2009
Today, December 1, 2009, marks the 21st commemoration of World AIDS Day, with the theme of "Universal Access and Human Rights." Universal access and human rights are inextricably linked. When people living with HIV (PLHIV) and other vulnerable populations experience stigma and discrimination and other violations of their rights, they are discouraged from accessing health services. Therefore, safeguarding human rights is vital to achieving the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, and care. The attached brief illustrates how Task Order 1 of the USAID | Health Policy Initiative is helping to safeguard human rights and promote equitable access to HIV services in more than 20 countries around the world. read more...
Country Spotlight: Rwanda
Task Order I of the USAID | Health Policy Initiative in Rwanda works to enhance the enabling policy environment by strengthening the national response to HIV and repositioning family planning as a higher priority on the nation's agenda.
The project is assisting the Committee National de Lutte Contre le SIDA (CNLS) with strengthening the national HIV monitoring and evaluation plan and building its capacity, through a Goals Model application, to use strategic information.