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9 Strengthening Health Systems for an Effective HIV/AIDS Response-Main Messages
Pages 431-434

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... support for PEPFAR countries, this type of planning is the primary tool for ensuring leadership and gover nance as well as a vehicle for joint planning efforts that support the principles of ownership and mutual transparency, responsibility, and accountability. •  EPFAR has increasingly provided stronger support for partner coun P try planning and the development of national frameworks, policies, and strategic plans.
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From page 432...
... Information Systems •  espite initial PEPFAR-specific systems for program monitoring data, D PEPFAR has worked with partner country governments to integrate and strengthen health information systems, including work that has strengthened partner country Laboratory Information Management Systems. However, ongoing support to strengthen partner country health information systems -- and better alignment and integration with those systems -- is needed to enhance timely data availability and quality for use in strategic program planning, resource allocation, and commodities procurement.
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From page 433...
... PEPFAR can contribute to fulfilling that need by leveraging and maximizing its investments in collaborative efforts to build the capacity of health professional training schools, which would improve the ability of coun tries to address not only HIV but also the dual burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases that many high-burden countries increasingly face. Adherence by partner countries to the Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel and followthrough on commitments to the Abuja Declaration could sup port both sustainability of their own health workforces and country ownership.
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... Further considerations for implementation of this recommendation: •  n important focus for PEPFAR's future activities and policies should A be support for partner country capacity to locally produce and retain clinical, nonclinical, and management professionals whose training and scope of practice are appropriate and optimized for the tasks needed. The Medical Education and Nursing/Midwifery Education Partnership Initiatives have provided a starting point for the training of physicians and nurses; however, the training of associate clinician providers and other cadres will also be critical to the sustainable management of the response.
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  • government priorities
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