New CEPA Publications Launched at IAC

The Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS (CEPA) is an advocacy campaign that seeks to increase coverage rates for comprehensive prevention of parent-to-child transmission (PPTCT+) and high-quality pediatric treatment services from the current average of 45% to the globally agreed-upon target of 80%. Launched in 2009, CEPA is initially focusing on six sub-Saharan African countries: Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

In conjunction with the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, the Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS has issued two new publications:

Accelerating Action to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS by 2015: A Status Report

Based on input from CEPA's country-level partners, the CEPA Status Report provides a snapshot of pediatric HIV/AIDS globally and in CEPA's initial focus countries. It examines issues that are being prioritized by CEPA, which when reviewed together provide a measure of progress to date and highlight ongoing challenges. In addition, the status report offers specific recommendations for action by a range of stakeholders, including national governments, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, the U.S. and other donor governments, and the Coordinated Procurement Planning Program, among others.

The CEPA Status Report highlights concrete progress and bottlenecks to achieving these priority goals:

  • Rapid adoption and implementation of new World Health Organization guidelines on antiretroviral therapy, PPTCT+ (Option B), and infant feeding by 2011;
  • Development and implementation of early infant diagnosis and treatment guidelines to increase testing of children within two months of birth by 2011;
  • Effective policy and monitoring mechanisms in place to reduce point-of-care stock-outs of ART for adults and children, opportunistic infection drugs, and early infant diagnosis and family planning commodities by 2012;
  • Increased national budgets for PPTCT+ and pediatric treatment and services by 2012;
  • Achieve the Abuja Declaration commitment by 2012;
  • Full funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and PEPFAR by 2012;
  • Global Fund programming opportunities include sufficient funding for all four prongs of PPTCT+, coverage targets, and pediatric treatment in CEPA countries by 2012;
  • Effective policies and guidelines to expand and improve human resources capacity to support scale-up of PPTCT+ and pediatric treatment services by 2012;
  • Effective policy and monitoring mechanisms to reduce stigma and discrimination to support scale-up of PPTCT+ and pediatric treatment services by 2012.

Download the CEPA Status Report at http://www.globalaidsalliance.org/page/-/PDFs/CEPA_Status_Report_July_2010_FINAL.pdf.

Accelerating National-Level Action to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS:
An Advocacy Toolkit

The CEPA Advocacy Toolkit is designed for civil-society organizations or other groups that want to replicate CEPA's approach and undertake advocacy campaigns to end pediatric HIV/AIDS. It provides a step-by-step guide to developing national-level advocacy action plans that reflect a clear focus on achieving well-defined advocacy outcomes, and incorporate systems for monitoring progress and evaluating impact. Among the key steps described in the toolkit are (1)  building a national action network; (2) identifying key stakeholders, partners, and targets; (3) conducting a situation analysis; (4) identifying and prioritizing bottlnecks; and (5) and identifying specific advocacy outcomes and outputs, as well as Key Performance Indicators for monitoring progress.

Download the CEPA Advocacy Toolkit at http://www.globalaidsalliance.org/page/-/PDFs/CEPA_Advocacy_Toolkit_July_2010_FINAL.pdf.

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