Table 4 HIV/AIDS coordination structures in seven case study countries

China

State Council Coordinating Mechanism for STIs and AIDS (1996)

2002

State Council AIDS Working Committee Office (SCAWCO) (2004)

-Most ministries have established HIV/AIDS coordination committees

-The National Centre for AIDS/STD Prevention ontrol (NCAIDS), created in 1998 & integrated with Chinese CDC

-AIDS Working Committees

-AIDS Prevention & Control Lead Groups

Georgia

Governmental Commission on HIV/AIDS/STI & other Socially Dangerous Diseases (1996)

2003

Country Coordination Mechanism (2003)

-National Centre for Diseases Control & Public Health

-Prevention Task Force (PTF), est. under the USAID funded STI/HIV Prevention Project (UN agencies & national and international CSOs)

N/A

Kyrgyzstan

UN Thematic Group on HIV/AIDS (1996)

2001

Multisectoral Country Coordination Committee on Socially Significant Diseases & Especially Dangerous Diseases (2007)

-HIV/AIDS service CSOs Steering Group

-Intersectoral Steering Group on Health Protection & Social Care in Penal Enforcement System

- UN HIV/AIDS Theme Group

-Regional & municipal level HIV/AIDS coordination committees

-Regional, municipal, district health coordination committees

-CSO Working Group on Prevention of HIV/AIDS epidemic (Osh)

Mozambique

National STI/HIV/AIDS Control Programme within the Ministry of Health

2002

National AIDS Council (NAC) (2000)

-HIV/AIDS Partners Forum (link between NAC secretariat & donors)

-Network of International CSOs working on Health & HIV/AIDS (NAIMA)

MONASO: Network of national CSOs working on HIV/AIDS

RENSIDA: National Network of PLWHA Associations

CCM for Global Fund which meets mainly for project proposal review

Health SWap: Sectoral Coordination Committee ('comite de coordenacao sectorial' (CCS), Joint Coordinating Committee ('sectoral co-ordination committee') (CCC), HIV/AIDS WGs/Taskforces

-Pre-partners forum (for HIV/AIDS)

-Health Partners Group (for Health Sector)

Peru

Technical Commission for Notification & Registry

2002

Country Coordination Mechanism: National Multisectoral Coordination Commission on Health (2000)

Multisectoral National Coordination Committee on Health (Global Fund projects)

Multisectoral Regional Coordination Committees on Health

Ukraine

Governmental Commission on managing development and implementation of AIDS related countermeasures in Ukrainian SSR (1991)

2002

-Coordination Council on HIV/AIDS, TB & Drug Addiction (2007)

-UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS

-UN Joint Technical Team

-National Council for HIV/AIDS & TB (2007)

-Committee on HIV/AIDS & other Socially Dangerous Diseases (MoH)

-Steering Group for World Bank Loan

-Regional & municipal level AIDS Coordination Councils

-CSO Forum (Odesa)

-Coordinating Groups of Sites (CGS)

-District Councils on HIV/AIDS

Zambia

National HIV/AIDS Council (NAC) (created 2000; made legal by Parliament 2002)

2002

National HIV/AIDS Council (NAC) (created 2000; made legal by Parliament 2002)

- Cabinet Committee on HIV/AIDS

-Thematic/Technical Working Groups

- CCM

- SWAp

- ZANARA

- CSO Networks: Zambia National AIDS Network (ZNAN); Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ)

-District AIDS Task Forces (DATFs) & District AIDS Coordination Advisors (DACAs)

-Provincial AIDS Task Forces (PATFs) & Provincial AIDS Coordination Advisors (PACA)

-Provincial Development Coordinating Committee (PDCC)

- District Development Coordinating Committee (DDCC)

-District Health Management Team (DHMT)

-Community AIDS Task Forces (CATF)